Timer

[usul]

How do you start a timer to calculate the time it takes to complete a task?

[Alex]

It`s something like this

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label start:

    scene black
    $ ui.timer(30.0, ui.jumps("too_slow"))
    $ ui.textbutton("Press me", clicked=ui.returns(True), xalign=.6, yalign=.3)
    $ ui.interact()
    "You did it...))"
    return

label too_slow:
    "... ..."
    return

http://www.renpy.org/wiki/ui.timer

[usul]

yeah that part I get, I've seen it around the posts a lot these days, what I'm looking to do would be more like telling you how long it took.

something like:

timer start
user input
timer stop
it took you n seconds to respond

[usul]

I found this on python.org, I think it might be of use in trying to figure out the time at the start and end of a task then calculating the difference. Not sure how I'll put it together yet, butI'll try to get it working tonight.

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>>> # dates are easily constructed and formatted
>>> from datetime import date
>>> now = date.today()
>>> now
datetime.date(2003, 12, 2)
>>> now.strftime("%m-%d-%y. %d %b %Y is a %A on the %d day of %B.")
'12-02-03. 02 Dec 2003 is a Tuesday on the 02 day of December.'

>>> # dates support calendar arithmetic
>>> birthday = date(1964, 7, 31)
>>> age = now - birthday
>>> age.days
14368

[PyTom]

I'd probably use the similar:

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init python:
    import time

$ start = time.time()

e "Go ahead, take your time."

$ time_taken = time.time() - start

e "You took %(time_taken)f seconds."

[usul]

I get the following error:
TypeError: a float is required

[usul]

I can't figure out how to make this code work, anyone got an idea?

[chronoluminaire]

What code are you using precisely? Is it character-for-character copypasted from PyTom's post? And can you post the full error message and traceback?

[usul]

My bad, it works just fine (I transcribed it from my cellphone when offline but having copy-pasted it today It works like a charm)

Thanks!!!