My first project when I started learning C# was to make a little timer
to tell me when my laundry was done :) and I thought it would be fun to
convert this to Python. Here's what I came up with after much struggling
with the Timer class from the threading module -- as you can see, I
abandoned it for the sleep() function from timer.
Please let me know if this is a good (i.e. Pythonic) way of doing this,
and if it can be improved (although I don't need anything fancier than
this basic functionality).
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from time import sleep
minutes = input('Enter the number of minutes to wait: ')
for x in range(minutes):
sleep(1.0)
minutes -= 1
print minutes, 'minutes remaining.'
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And if you are interested, here is the original C# code in all its
monstrous glory. I can't believe the difference!
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
namespace MyTimer
{
class Timer
{
static void Main()
{
Console.Write("Enter the number of minutes to wait: ");
int iTime = Int32.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
Thread.Sleep(60000);
for (int i = iTime - 1; i > 0; i--)
{
Console.WriteLine("{0} minute(s) remaining.", i);
Thread.Sleep(60000);
}
Console.Write("{0} minutes have elapsed.", iTime);
for (int i = 3; i > 0; i--)
{
Console.Beep();
Thread.Sleep(1000);
}
}
}
}
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8 lines vs. 31 lines! :)
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