Countdown clock

krock923 · 07-21-2004, 09:57 PM

I've been trying all day to get a simple countdown clock to work on my system with zero luck. I found a couple of apps for it but all of them required upgrading python or installing some other stuff first. Isn't there a nice and simple gui program for counting down a time? I'm using redhat 9. If there's not, how hard would it be to write? I've been wanting to take the leap into programming for some time now. maybe this is the way to start?

hornbeck · 07-21-2004, 11:07 PM

Here would be a dirty countdown clock. It would ask the user for a number to count down from. than print each number out.

import time

a = input("Please enter the number to count down from: ")
b = 0

while a > b:
print a
time.sleep(1)
a = a - 1

That would be it in a nut shell. I don't really know how accurate you want.

John