CODEWITHSUNDEEP
python
Maria
Maria

Reputation: 1297

adding one second to a "timer" when a variable increases by 1

I have a variable that ranges from 0 to 300 based on some complicated conditions that aren't really relevant.

my problem is that I want to make a timer variable that increases like a clock would. when my variable increases by 1, I want the timer variable to increase by one second. I have this:

for timer in range(1,301):
    seconds = range(1,60)
    print seconds

the problem is that I need seconds to go from 0.59 to 1.00, not to 1.60 because that's not how time works. I'm thinking I need a minutes variable also and to add one to it once 'seconds' is > 59. but I'm not sure exactly how to go about this

Upvotes: 0

Views: 153

Answers (1)

doctorlove
doctorlove

Reputation: 19252

You know that a minute is 60 seconds, so you could just count seconds and use the modulus operator %

seconds = 0
for timer in range(1,301):
    #whatever ...
    seconds += 1
    print seconds/60, seconds % 60

Upvotes: 2

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