How can I get Python to countdown to a set date in the future?

Answer 1

This will give you remaining days/hours/minutes/seconds to a given date(Nov 1 2018 13:33) from now:
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from datetime import datetime

futuredate = datetime.strptime('Nov 1 2018 13:33', '%b %d %Y %H:%M')

nowdate = datetime.now()
count = int((futuredate-nowdate).total_seconds())

days = count//86400
hours = (count-days*86400)//3600
minutes = (count-days*86400-hours*3600)//60
seconds = count-days*86400-hours*3600-minutes*60
print("{} days {} hours {} minutes {} seconds left".format(days, hours, minutes, seconds))

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You can wrap it into a loop if you want

Answer 2

What if the future day is a variable say the day is 7days from the day the user triggers it and this will be different for different users..