How to add a timer in Python

you need to import time, then set the time that it started at, and then minus that from the time that it ended (see code below)

import time

timeStart = time.time()
choice = input("Enter choice:\n")
timeEnd= time.time()
timeTaken = timeEnd - timeStart

print("That took: " + str(timeTaken) + "seconds")

@Bookie0 did it help?

That won’t work. Run the code. @CodingCactus

Hey, I’m going to try it out rn but it seems pretty logic but thanks! @CodingCactus

So i tried it out, and it gave me an error on last line asking if i meant == instead of = , so i did that, but now it just gives me false instead of a number:

@CodingCactus

@NoelBryan works for me

Oh wait never mind you wrote = but i think you meant + and it works now @CodingCactus

@Bookie0 yh, that was a typo, it should be a + as you are just concatenating

Ok yeah it worked. Thank you very much for your great help! :D @CodingCactus

@Bookie0 np

Told you it didn’t work. @CodingCactus

@NoelBryan but it does

Now it does @NoelBryan

@NoelBryan It was just an obvious typo, which you thought broke it or something

Except for the fact that your “obvious” type bookie0 didn’t recognize..............

@NoelBryan well, to me it looks like they recognised it

Then why did they comment? @CodingCactus

Because before I wrote that there was a problem, but then I commented to @CodingCactus that actually I resolved it @NoelBryan

@NoelBryan why are you focusing so heavily in this lol. Are you really bored or something?

Lol @CodingCactus

@Bookie0 This escalated quickly xD

Yeah lol @Tsadema

You can use the getKey module, and clear the screen and re-print it out every second, like @CodingCactus’s typing speed test. That is probably the only way because otherwise they would have to redo it every time you clear the screen and it would be impossible.

@NoelBryan that aint what they were asking tho

@NoelBryan I don't print the screen every second in my typing speed test either

Ohh, I thought they meant a timer displaying on the screen. The only way to do that is my awnser. @CodingCactus

@CodingCactus
Please re-read my post. You don’t understand what I said.

@NoelBryan your post doesn't really make sense to me if i'm honest

Yeah, I didn’t mean a timer on screen, but thank you very much for your answer! @NoelBryan

@NoelBryan Ummmm......

@NoelBryan @CodingCactus
I stumbled upon this post is there a way to make one that displays the timer while having somebody put in input because I want to try something.

Well I’m not sure, maybe you can just print the timer and then put the input below.
Or maybe you can do if it’s a countdown like:

countdown = 100
while countdown < 100: 
   print (countdown) 
   countdown -= 1

But I don’t know if that’s what you’re asking for
@BobNeo

@BobNeo you can't have a clock counting down (being displayed) while waiting for an input, because an input will pause the program until something is input.

Use my solution. It works for that, that’s the only thing it works for @BobNeo

Oh yeah, that seems like it would work. @NoelBryan @CodingCactus
However, is there any easier way without importing getKey

@BobNeo
importing getkey isn't hard anyway, it is like importing time or any other library

@NoelBryan getkey still pauses the program like a normal input does

I know it’s just slow because repl.it takes awhile to import packages saying “importing getKey” @CodingCactus

@CodingCactus
I think what @NoelBryan means is you keep track of what keys were pressed without pressing enter like in an array and every second you print out the time. That would work.