title: Python infinite while loop pauses when it shouldn't until ctrl-c is pressed
body: <p>I have a python while-loop that posts oil futures data every minute to an API that is running on a Heroku server.
  The while-loop is set to run infinitely. It runs completely fine for hours, until at some point, it just stops (this stopping point does not occur at a specific timeframe after the program is started). When I say stop, I don't mean the code is exited or an error is thrown. It just sits, not printing any output, until I hit CTRL-C, when it will continue its normal operation. The code is being run on an AWS server, and I did not run into the same issue running on my local machine.</p>
  <p>See my code below:</p>
  <pre><code>def data_reader():
  
      while True:
          time_start = time.time()
          try:
              source = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=5)
  
              source.encoding = 'utf-8' 
              status = source.status_code
              source = source.text
              soup =  BeautifulSoup(source, 'lxml')
              divs = soup.find(&quot;div&quot;, {&quot;id&quot;: &quot;quotes_summary_current_data&quot;})
              price = divs.find('span').text
              price = price.strip(&quot;'&quot;)
              price = float(price)
              now = (datetime.now()).strftime(timeformat)
              print(now)
              print(price)
  
              data_obj = {'time': now, 'close': price}
  
  
          except Exception as e:
              print(str(e))
              now = (datetime.now()).strftime(timeformat)
              data_obj = {'time': now, 'close': 'NaN'}
  
          response = requests.post(base, data=data_obj)
          print(response.text)
  
       
          time.sleep(60)
          
  
  if __name__ == '__main__':
      data_reader()
  
  </code></pre>
  <p>I also tried removing/changing the timeout parameter in requests.get(), to no avail.</p>
  <p>My initial instinct is that some other process is being opened, and has to be killed until it can continue, but I have no idea why/where that would be happening.</p>