[Tutor] alternative to time.sleep()

[Andrei Kulakov]

On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 11:00:52PM +0000, Kyle Babich wrote:
> I'm looking for an alternative to time.sleep() that will visually
> countdown/countup the sleep time and can be paused and resumed at any
> point.  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> --
> Kyle
>
You have to have a separate thread that prints time left, sleeps one
sec, prints time left, etc. And main thread will wait for input and if
you hit 'p'enter it'll set second_thread.paused variable.

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