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). --------------------- 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.' --------------------- And if you are interested, here is the original C# code in all its monstrous glory. I can't believe the difference! ---------------------------- 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); } } } } -------------------------- 8 lines vs. 31 lines! :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list