How to use raspberry pi gpio pin with using ubuntu 18.04.5 [duplicate]
In the terminal type:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install python-pip python-dev
pip install --user RPi.GPIO
If you are using Python 3.x run these commands.
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install python3-pip python3-dev
pip3 install --user RPi.GPIO
The raspberry-gpio-python examples are worth reading. In the Inputs example there is this code snippet:
while GPIO.input(channel) == GPIO.LOW:
time.sleep(0.01)
It waits 10 ms to give CPU a chance to do other things.