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Imperfect Stopwatch - PoetLearnsPython - Jul-20-2019
Hey, I'm new here so if I break any rules, feel free to scold me.
Anyway, I was learning how to program a simple timer from a YouTube video. I got everything to work, and tweaked a few things myself. But when I compared it with an independent timer (phone and computer timer), I noticed that it runs a bit slower. By the two minute mark it's about 15 seconds behind the independent timer. Is there a way to improve this or would I have to completely start from scratch to get a more accurate one?
Oh, and I'm running 3.7.
Here's the code:
import time
from os import system
seconds = int(0)
minutes = int(0)
hours = int(0)
run = input("Enter R to run the program\n")
while run.lower()=="r":
seconds = (seconds + 1)
if seconds > 59:
seconds = 0
minutes += 1
if minutes > 59:
minutes = 0
hours += 1
system('cls')
print(hours,":", minutes,":",seconds)
time.sleep(1)
RE: Imperfect Stopwatch - ichabod801 - Jul-20-2019
Well, you're waiting a second, then doing some stuff, and then waiting a second, and doing stuff, ... Doing stuff takes time. Printed output especially takes time. So it's going to be slower than an accurate stopwatch.