🔒 Text effects + Sound

[serene vault]

import winsound
print ("The Great Timer")
print("Type in the minutes first than the seconds in float form")

timer_amount_mins = float(input("How long do you want your timer to last in minutes? "))
timer_amount_secs = int(input("How much seconds do you want to add "))
timer_length = int(input("How many beeps do you want? "))

timer_amount_mins *=60
timer_amount =  timer_amount_mins + timer_amount_secs
timer_amount = int(timer_amount)

while timer_amount > 0:
    print(" ",timer_amount, end = '\r')
    timer_amount -= 1
    time.sleep(1)
   

if timer_amount == 0 :
    for i in range(timer_length):
        print("TIMER UP")
        winsound.Beep(2000, 200)
        winsound.Beep(1000, 200)
        winsound.Beep(500, 200)
        time.sleep(0.2)

I want the original text to have italics or bold for effects and is there any other way to produce a nicer sound

[fluid tide]

Hey @serene vault!

Please edit your message to use a code block

Add a py after the three backticks.

```py
print('Hello, world!')
```

This will result in the following:

print('Hello, world!')```

[fluid tide]

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[serene vault]

Its not urgent

Just a qol change

[cinder acorn]

If you're printing to a terminal, it may honour ANSI escape sequences. These tell the terminal to render text in particular ways. There are escape sequences to turn on italics and bold:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Select_Graphic_Rendition_parameters

[serene vault]

Oh ty

[cinder acorn]

So ESC [ 3 m turns on italics, ESC [ 1 m turns on bold, ESC [ 0 m returns to the default text.
ESC is the ANSI escape code (27) and the 3, 1, 0 should be adjusted according to the table there.
You can turn on multiple modes at once.
Not all terminals support everything, but if something's not supported it's usually just ignored so it's normally safe to send.

[cinder acorn]

So code like:

esc = '\x1b'
italic = f'{esc}[3m'
default = f'{esc}[0m'
print(f'Here is some {italic}text in italic{default}.')

[serene vault]

Oh ty this makes sense

I can use this now

[serene vault]

Its finished!!!

https://github.com/limidan7/Python-Terminal-Timer/blob/main/Timer.py

Its very simple and just gets you by

but I made it so im proud

I try to use as little ai as possible but I didnt know how to utilise the time module

[slim holly]

As long as you aren't having AI generate code for you, and are double checking what it tells you, small usage of it isn't the end of the world.

There is a small oddity in your code, though:

while timer_amount > 0:
    . . .

if timer_amount == 0:

In the current code, timer_amount must be an integer, so if that loop exits, timer_amount must be 0, so if timer_amount == 0: will always be true. That if also introduces a potential future bug where timer_amount skips 0 because you did something like decrement by more than 1, and the alarm never goes off.

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