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Taming Time in Python

Timers, stopwatches, threading and more.

So your project demands that you do something with time and you find the subject a little hard to approach ? I’ve been there a few times and so I wanted to write a little about time related things in Python, (mostly to keep track) come along I’ll try my best to make it beginner friendly.

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Measuring time

By that I mean you just want to see time go by in your terminal, this is a script that does just that :

Not much going on here, we just import the time library ( which should be part of your default python install ) and call a few methods:
time.strftime To get and format the current time
time.sleep(1) This just tells your script to wait one second before looping back at the while level.
You should get a readout in your terminal like:
14:39:43
14:39:44
14:39:45
14:39:46
14:39:47
14:39:48
14:39:49
To exit the loop just hit Ctrl + C 

While the code above does exactly what we want, your end project is probably not a command line time teller, so let’s do a small integration with a GUI, ( I use/recommend PySimpleGUI with some caveats)…