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How To Create A Countdown Timer Using Python

The document describes how to create a countdown timer using Python. It takes input from the user for the length of the countdown in seconds. It then uses a while loop and the time module to print the remaining time in minutes and seconds format, decrementing by one second each iteration. After the countdown finishes, it prints "Fire in the hole" to indicate completion.

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How To Create A Countdown Timer Using Python

The document describes how to create a countdown timer using Python. It takes input from the user for the length of the countdown in seconds. It then uses a while loop and the time module to print the remaining time in minutes and seconds format, decrementing by one second each iteration. After the countdown finishes, it prints "Fire in the hole" to indicate completion.

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How To Create a Countdown Timer Using

Python?
Abstract
So here we were creating a countdown timer using python

The code will take input from the user regarding the length of the countdown in seconds. After that,
a countdown will begin on the screen in the format ‘minutes: seconds. We will use the time module
here

Approach

 In this project, we will be using the time module and its sleep() function.


Follow the below steps to create a countdown timer:
• Step 1: Import the time module.
• Step 2: Then ask the user to input the length of the countdown in seconds.
• Step 3: This value is sent as a parameter ‘t’ to the user-defined
function countdown(). Any variable read using the input function is a
string. So, convert this parameter to ‘int’ as it is of string type.
• Step 4: In this function, a while loop runs until time becomes 0.
• Step 5: Use divmod() to calculate the number of minutes and seconds.
You can read more about it here.
• Step 6: Now print the minutes and seconds on the screen using the
variable timeformat.
• Step 7: Using end = ‘\r’ we force the cursor to go back to the start of the
screen (carriage return) so that the next line printed will overwrite the
previous one.
• Step 8: The time.sleep() is used to make the code wait for one sec.
• Step 9: Now decrement time so that the while loop can converge.
• Step 10: After the completion of the loop, we will print “Fire in the hole”
to signify the end of the countdown.

Code
In Jupyter notebook

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