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

a simple timer program that has sound to remind you would be:

from time import sleep
import winsound
m = 0
print("""**************************
Welcome To FASTIMER®
**************************""")
while True:
    try:
        countdown = int(input("How many seconds:  "))
        break
    except ValueError:
        print("ERROR, TRY AGAIN")
original = countdown
while countdown >= 60:
    countdown -= 60
    m += 1
for i in range (original,0,-1):
    if m < 0:
        break
    for i in range(countdown,-2,-1):
        if i % 60 == 0:
            m-=1
        if i == 0:
            break
        print(m," minutes and ",i," seconds")
        sleep(1)
    if m < 0:
        break
    for j in range(59,-1,-1):
        if j % 60 == 0:
            m-=1          
        print(m," minutes and ",j," seconds")
        sleep(1)
print("TIMER FINISHED")
winsound.PlaySound('sound.wav', winsound.SND_FILENAME)

this program uses time.sleep() to wait a second. It converts every 60 seconds to a minute. the sound only works with Windows or you can install pygame to add sounds.