Python : Basic countdown timer & function() > int()

Question

I\'m trying to ucreate a timer function that runs in the background of my code and make it so I can use/check the time. What I mean by use/check, I\'m trying to make it so I can

Answer 1

The way you do it, you'll going to have to use multithread.

Here is another, simpler approach : On your script beginning, set a time_start variable with the number of seconds since the epoch using time.time() Then when you need the number of elapsed seconds, use time.time() - time_start :

t_start = time.time()
# do whatever you'd like
t_current = int(time.time()-t_start) # this way you get the number of seconds elapsed since start.

You can put that in a function as well, defining t_start as a global variable.

import time
t_start = time.time()

def timer():
    global t_start
    print(str(int(time.time()-t_start)))


print('start')
time.sleep(2)
timer()
time.sleep(3)
timer()