Creating a Stopwatch progam for Python 3.3 only in IDLE -

i have assignment need create stopwatch, idle. here's have far, i'm not sure how convert times normal time.

import time start = 0 def stopwatch():     while true:         command = input("type: start, stop, reset, or quit: \n")         if (command == "quit"):             break         elif (command == "start"):             start = time.time()             print(start)             stopwatch2()         elif (command == "stop"):             stopwatch()         elif (command == "reset'"):               stopwatch()         else :             break  def stopwatch2():     while true:         command = input("type: stop, reset, or quit: \n")         if (command == "quit"):             break         elif (command == "stop"):             total = time.time() - start             print(total)             stopwatch()         elif (command == "reset'"):               stopwatch()         else:             break  stopwatch() 

thanks help!

you can use datetime.timedelta():

import datetime  print(datetime.timedelta(seconds=total)) 

for example:

in [10]: print datetime.timedelta(seconds=10000000) 115 days, 17:46:40