Not able to make a specific thing pause in pygame

[michael1789]

Those functions pause the whole script. Do you have a game loop? What you need are timed updates for your doors, where they measure how much time has passed and open and close how you want.

class Door():
    def __init__(self):
        self.last_update = pygame.time.get_ticks()
        self.interval = 1000  #    1 second
        self.state = "closed"
        

    def update(self):
        now = pygame.time.get_ticks()
        if now - self.last_update > self.interval:
            self.last_update = now
            if self.state == "closed":
                self.state = "open"
            else:
               self.state = "closed"