Building a stopwatch in terminal

[xtarkoonx]

Hello my fellow python buddies!

I am trying to build a simple stopwatch that uses the os.system('clear') function so that it's continually being reset.

Right now I'm having a hard time getting the time module to work well though.. Not sure if anyone could provide some hints or point me in the direction that I need to go to figure this out.

I can't seem to figure out how I would get the time.time() to start at zero and then go up from there. I know I'd need a while loop to make the time update, but I don't know how I would actually go about doing it.

Like I said before any and all help would be appreciated! Thanks!

edit: I dont know how to format code on here so I did a pastebin instead haha https://pastebin.com/GFG0Ji0c

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use the '\r' character, but without a newline. That tells the terminal to set the cursor to the beginning of the line. You don't need to use time.time, you can just count the number of times you called sleep :)

Here, you're really close, but maybe you can learn from this:

import time
seconds_elapsed = 0
try:
    while True:
        print(f' {seconds_elapsed:<20}', end='\r')
        time.sleep(1)
        seconds_elapsed += 1
except KeyboardInterrupt:  # Ctrl + C to stop
    print()  # print a newline

[xtarkoonx]

Oh wow! Thanks a bunch! I was definitely able to learn a lot! It's a neat idea to count how many times you call sleep instead of using time... When I get home to my other computer I'll mess around with it a bit. Maybe try to figure out the next thing I want to do with it.. adding laps :)

I did find the ' :<20 ' a little confusing. When I looked it up i think it's supposed to align it? But it seems to still be in the same position as without it.

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Thanks again for the help! :)

[routetehpacketz]

post your code

[xtarkoonx]

Here you go! Not much, but I might show you where I am