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

New to the python world!
I need a System Time independent Stopwatch so I did translate my old C++ class into Python:

from ctypes.wintypes import DWORD
import win32api
import datetime

class Stopwatch:

    def __init__(self):
        self.Restart()

    def Restart(self):
        self.__ulStartTicks = DWORD(win32api.GetTickCount()).value

    def ElapsedMilliSecs(self):
        return DWORD(DWORD(win32api.GetTickCount()).value-DWORD(self.__ulStartTicks).value).value

    def ElapsedTime(self):
        return datetime.timedelta(milliseconds=self.ElapsedMilliSecs())

This has no 49 days run over issue due to DWORD math but NOTICE that GetTickCount has about 15 milliseconds granularity so do not use this class if your need 1-100 milliseconds elapsed time ranges.

Any improvement or feedback is welcome!