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Ethan L
Ethan L

Reputation: 3

I want to make a timer counting down in the background of my code

I am making a game in py2.7 and I want to know how to create a timer running in the background of my code and when time is up, a command is executed. Any help is appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 131

Answers (2)

John Morrison
John Morrison

Reputation: 4078

Depending on what you are using for the game you will need to refresh the output so it doesn't print line by line, but this is a simple way to count down from 60 seonds:

from time import sleep

time = 60

while time != 0:
    print time
    time -= 1
    sleep(1)

Upvotes: 0

Alex Hall
Alex Hall

Reputation: 36043

You probably want threading.Timer. The sched module might also be useful.

Upvotes: 1

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