How to make a timer program in Python

Question

Here is my goal: To make a small program (text based) that will start with a greeting, print out a timer for how long it has been since the last event, and then a timer for the

Answer 1

Use the timeit module to time your code. Then adjust the time.sleep(x) accordingly. For example, you could use one of the following:

import timeit
#Do all your code and time stuff and while loop
#Store that time in a variable named timedLoop
timer = 1- timedLoop

#Inside while loop:
   time.sleep(timer)

This will time the code you have other than the time.sleep, and subtract that from 1 second and will sleep for that amount of time. This will give an accurate representation of 1 second. Another way is less work, but may not be as accurate:

#set up timeit module in another program and time your code, then do this:
#In new program:
timer = 1 - timerLoop
print timerLoop

Run your program, then copy the printed time and paste it into program two, the one you have now. Use timerLoop in your time.sleep():

time.sleep(timerLoop)

That should fix your problem.