Creating a Countdown Timer in Python

Countdown timers are generally used in games with time-limited challenges, and events time notification and can be useful for various applications.

Let’s walk through the process step by step.

 

• Step-by-step coding

 

Step 1: Import Required Modules

First, we will import the necessary module to work with time in Python. The time module provides functions for working with time-related tasks.

import time

 

If you don’t have the time module, you can install it through “pip install TIME-python”  write it in your terminal window to install it.

 

 

 

Step 2: Define the Countdown Function

Now we will define a function called countdown that takes the number of seconds as input and counts down from that value. Inside the function, we’ll use a loop to decrement the seconds and print the remaining time.

def countdown(seconds):
    while seconds > 0:
        print(seconds)
        time.sleep(1)
        seconds -= 1
    print("Time's up!")

You can write any statement in the print as you desire.

 

Step 3: Start the Countdown

To start the countdown, we have to call the countdown function with the duration we want in seconds as an argument. For now, we will take the count down from 10 seconds, so we gonna use the function as countdown(10).

countdown(10)  

You can customize the countdown function to fit your specific requirements and you can also modify the starting value according to your requirement.

Your code ends here

 

• Final Code

import time
def countdown(seconds):
    while seconds > 0:
        print(seconds)
        time.sleep(1)
        seconds -= 1
    print("Time's up!")
countdown(10)  

 

• OUTPUT:

The output of the above code will count down to 1 from 10 and at 0 (-1) it will print “Time’s up!”.

 

10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Time's up!

 

You can add additional functionality such as playing a sound when the countdown ends or you can integrate it into a larger project which can make it good and it can provide influence over the project.