[Tutor] python timers

[Brad Desautels]

Hello, my name is Brad and I am a student at  Suny Plattsburgh. and Python
programming is a course I am taking this semester. I find it a bit of a
challenge doing all the chapter programming exercises that are assigned. We
are currently in chapter 8 but some of the basics have not completely sunk
in yet. This is extra hard for me because my learning capacity isn't what it
used to be, 4 years ago I was in a motorcycle accident in which I sustained
a traumatic brain injury and lost my left leg .The TBI affects my ability to
remember short term things and my cognitive abilities are a bit off to say
the least. 

               If what I write seems a bit off """"Please bear with me.. I
need help completing my exercises, and do work very hard to absorb this
material.

 

Thank you,

Brad

 

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Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 12:38 AM
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Subject: [Tutor] python timers

 

Hello how do you do.

Today's question has to do with the time module. I want to add a timer to my
gui. 

 
As I was messing around with it I found a way to measure time... but I'm
positive there is a more elegant way to deal with this than what I've thrown
together. 

def thing():
    start = time.time()
    while 1:
        now = time.time()
        if now == start + 10.0:
            print "times up"

How are timers usually implemented?  By the way, I'm not really asking as
much about the how (because I could throw something together that will serve
my purpose), I'm asking more about conventions, like is there a standard way
people implement timers, like does python come with one built in? Does every
programmer who wants a timer write a different one?




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