Timer in python

Question

Asking help from all python experts. I'm busy with code in python where in one part I would like to add a timer. The user must input a time in minutes (say 5 min) and a percentage of a minute (say 25%). The timer output must then print for 15 seconds (25% of 1 minutes) start and then after 15 seconds print stop for 45 seconds. This must then loop for 5 minutes what the first user input was.
Can anybody help me with the code for this?

Answer 1

at the start:

import time

when you want to time something:

time.sleep(number of seconds)

Answer 2

The 'time' module will help you: study this link, and try to code it yourself: and ask for more specific help when you have some code to correct/improve ^^

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/JUMP_LINK__&&__python__&&__JUMP_LINK/python_date_time.htm

Answer 3

Thanks Cheesy Game Studios for pushing me in the right direction.
I've got the following code but the code won't stop at the set time the user entered. Any help please????

# input
t = float(input("Enter time in minutes: "))
perc = float(input("Enter percentage of a minute: "))

# calculations

sec = (t * 60) # calculating the time from minutes into seconds and how long the code must run until it stop
perc_start = ((perc / 100) * 60) # how long the start message must show
perc_stop = (60 - perc_start) # how long the stop message must show

# output
print("Total time in seconds = " + str(sec))
print("Total time in seconds that system must start per minute = " + str(perc_start))
print("Total time in seconds that system must stop per minute = " + str(perc_stop))

# pivot start stop
import time
t_total = 0
while t_total <= sec:
print("Start")
time.sleep(perc_start)
print("Stop")
time.sleep(perc_stop)