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

Your code's perfect except that you must do the following replacement:

minutes += 1 #instead of mins = minutes + 1

or

minutes = minutes + 1 #instead of mins = minutes + 1

but here's another solution to this problem:

def wait(time_in_seconds):
    time.sleep(time_in_seconds) #here it would be 1200 seconds (20 mins)