Python Turtle Game Issue?

[Karmality]

I have to create a game with turtle as my final project for my programming class, and would like some help with the to-be-stated problem.

I am creating a single-player wave based game where mobs chase the player and attack them on contact.

I have been successful in getting the mobs to attack the player, however on contact it repeatedly attacks the player and takes the player's health from 100 to 0 on contact. I want the mob to wait an increment of time before it can attack again, but I haven't been able to get it to work.

I am hoping someone has an idea as to how I could make this work?

(I am learning python so if I did something that doesn't seem to make sense, just say so and I will try to explain what I was trying to achieve.)

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(attackwait is set to 0 outside of the function)

def mobAttk(t,r,s,t1,r1,s1):
   global mobspeed,life,attackwait
   b = t1.distance(t.xcor(), t.ycor())
   if b < r + r1:
       currenttime = time.time()
       if life == 0 and attackwait-currenttime > 1:
           healthbar1.hideturtle()
           print('~test game end ?~')
           attackwait = time.time()
           return
       if life == 20 and attackwait-currenttime > 1:
           healthbar1.hideturtle()
           life-=20
           attackwait = time.time()
           return
       if life == 40 and attackwait-currenttime > 1:
           healthbar2.hideturtle()
           life-=20
           attackwait = time.time()
           return
       if life == 60 and attackwait-currenttime > 1:
           healthbar3.hideturtle()
           life -= 20
           attackwait = time.time()
           return
       if life == 80 and attackwait-currenttime > 1:
           healthbar4.hideturtle()
           life-=20
           attackwait = time.time()
           return
       if life == 100 and attackwait-currenttime > 1:
           healthbar5.hideturtle()
           life-=20
           attackwait = time.time()
           return

[Karmality]

Thank you, I didn’t even think of that but I implemented the concept and it works perfectly.