Creating a timer in python

Question

import time
def timer():
   now = time.localtime(time.time())
   return now[5]


run = raw_input("Start? > ")
while run == "start":
   minutes = 0
   current_sec = timer()
   #print current_sec
   if current_sec == 59:
      mins = minutes + 1
      print ">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>", mins

I want to create a kind of stopwatch that when minutes reach 20 minutes, brings up a dialog box, The dialog box is not the problem. But my minutes variable does not increment in this code.

Answer 1

You're probably looking for a Timer object: http://docs.python.org/2/library/threading.html#timer-objects