[Tutor] Still Can't Find Timed While Loops
bob gailer
bgailer at alum.rpi.edu
Fri Dec 7 16:41:30 CET 2007
earlylight publishing wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I now have my bit of code in while loop form and it works! It's great
> but not exactly what I wanted to do. I've been googling my heart out
> and I find lots of info on while loops and lots of info on timers that
> will execute an action AFTER a given interval but nothing on a timer
> that will execute an action DURING a given interval. What I'd really
> like to do at this point in my game is have the player execute the
> loop for 30 seconds then have it print the final score and break.
> Does anyone out there have any code that'll do that?
import time
start = time.time()
raw_input("Wait a few seconds, then press enter to continue.")
print time.time() - start
Does that give you a hint?
You don't need a timer, unless you want to interrupt the user if he is
not entering anything.
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