Timer for Python game

Question

I\'m trying to create a simple game where the point is to collect as many blocks as you can in a certain amount of time, say 10 seconds. How can I get a timer to begin ticking a

Answer 1

In this example the loop is run every second for ten seconds:

import datetime, time
then = datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedelta(seconds=10)
while then > datetime.datetime.now():
    print 'sleeping'
    time.sleep(1)