Creating a timer in python

Question

import time
def timer():
   now = time.localtime(time.time())
   return now[5]


run = raw_input(\"Start? > \")
while run == \"start\":
   minutes = 0
   current_         


        

Answer 1

See Timer Objects from threading.

How about

from threading import Timer

def timeout():
    print("Game over")

# duration is in seconds
t = Timer(20 * 60, timeout)
t.start()

# wait for time completion
t.join()

Should you want pass arguments to the timeout function, you can give them in the timer constructor:

def timeout(foo, bar=None):
    print('The arguments were: foo: {}, bar: {}'.format(foo, bar))

t = Timer(20 * 60, timeout, args=['something'], kwargs={'bar': 'else'})

Or you can use functools.partial to create a bound function, or you can pass in an instance-bound method.

Answer 2

import time
mintt=input("How many seconds you want to time?:")
timer=int(mintt)
while (timer != 0 ):
    timer=timer-1
    time.sleep(1)
    print(timer)

This work very good to time seconds.

Answer 3

I want to create a kind of stopwatch that when minutes reach 20 minutes, brings up a dialog box.

All you need is to sleep the specified time. time.sleep() takes seconds to sleep, so 20 * 60 is 20 minutes.

import time
run = raw_input("Start? > ")
time.sleep(20 * 60)
your_code_to_bring_up_dialog_box()

Answer 4

You can really simplify this whole program by using time.sleep:

import time
run = raw_input("Start? > ")
mins = 0
# Only run if the user types in "start"
if run == "start":
    # Loop until we reach 20 minutes running
    while mins != 20:
        print(">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> {}".format(mins))
        # Sleep for a minute
        time.sleep(60)
        # Increment the minute total
        mins += 1
    # Bring up the dialog box here

Answer 5

# this is kind of timer, stop after the input minute run out.    
import time
min=int(input('>>')) 
while min>0:
    print min
    time.sleep(60) # every minute 
    min-=1  # take one minute 

Answer 6

Try having your while loop like this:

minutes = 0

while run == "start":
   current_sec = timer()
   #print current_sec
   if current_sec == 59:
      minutes = minutes + 1
      print ">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>", mins