Question

I’m trying to create a simple game where the point is to collect as many blocks as you can in a certain amount of time, say 10 seconds. How can I get a timer to begin ticking at the start of the program and when it reaches 10 seconds, do something (in this case, exit a loop)?

Answer 1

import time

now = time.time()
future = now + 10
while time.time() < future:
    # do stuff
    pass

Alternatively, if you’ve already got your loop:

while True:
    if time.time() > future:
        break
    # do other stuff

This method works well with pygame, since it pretty much requires you to have a big main loop.