Countdown timer in Pygame

Question

I started using pygame and I want to do simple game. One of the elements which I need is countdown timer. How can I do the countdown time (eg 10 seconds) in PyGame?

Answer 1

There are several ways you can do this- here's one. Python doesn't have a mechanism for interrupts as far as I know.

import time, datetime

timer_stop = datetime.datetime.utcnow() +datetime.timedelta(seconds=10)
while True:
    if datetime.datetime.utcnow() > timer_stop:
        print "timer complete"
        break