Pygame, I am trying to make a timer

Question

I have created a game that has two cars who race each other by tapping buttons quicker than the other. So i want to make it where after the race ends it prints out how long it took for the winner of the race to make it to the finish line. I have tried using pygame.time.get_ticks() however that gives the time of how long since pygame.init() was called.

See the answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7370801/measure-time-elapsed-in-python — marienbad, Apr 28 '16 at 03:32

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 28 '16 at 07:07

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You can use pygame.time.get_ticks().

Set a start time and an end time and measure the difference:

import pygame as py
py.init()
clock = py.time.Clock()

start_time = py.time.get_ticks()
print "started at:",start_time

for i in xrange(0,30): #wait 1 second
    clock.tick(30)

end_time = py.time.get_ticks()
print "finished at:",end_time

time_taken = end_time-start_time
print "time taken:",time_taken

answered Apr 28 '16 at 07:07

DCA-

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Thank you. i will try it. But what is the point of the `for` loop? – Petras99 Apr 28 '16 at 19:07
The for loop is simply waiting 1 second in the way a 30fps game would – DCA- Apr 29 '16 at 06:39
Ohh okay. May i ask why that's useful? – Petras99 Apr 29 '16 at 13:49
It was to simulate a person taking around a seconds to finish the race. – DCA- May 03 '16 at 06:37

Pygame, I am trying to make a timer

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