I want a code that shows the complete time someone has been in a voice channel, but I don't know how to start and stop a counter.
@bot.event
async def on_voice_state_update(before, after):
if after.voice.voice_channel:
timestrr = time.strftime("%d.%m.%Y-%H:%M:%S")
voicezeit(after.id, timestrr)
#here should a timer start
else:
#and here should the timer stop
If you just want to measure the elapsed wall-clock time between two points, you could use time.time():
import time
start = time.time()
print("hello")
end = time.time()
print(end - start)
This gives the execution time in seconds.
Another option since 3.3 might be to use
perf_counterorprocess_time, depending on your requirements. Before 3.3 it was recommended to usetime.clock. However, it is currently deprecated:
On Unix, return the current processor time as a floating point number expressed in seconds. The precision, and in fact the very definition of the meaning of “processor time”, depends on that of the C function of the same name.
On Windows, this function returns wall-clock seconds elapsed since the first call to this function, as a floating point number, based on the Win32 function QueryPerformanceCounter(). The resolution is typically better than one microsecond.
Deprecated since version 3.3: The behaviour of this function depends on the platform: use perf_counter() or process_time() instead, depending on your requirements, to have a well defined behaviour.
Why do you need a counter? Just initialise start_time variable to None in the beginning, then in your if-block you check whether it is set, if it isn't you set it to time.time(). In the else-block set end_time to time.time() again and calculate the difference.
EDIT
I don't know what the layout of the rest of your application, you have to initialise start_time = None somewhere outside of this update function. You would need to set it for each user, I will assume it is stored as user.start_time, but again, this is dependent on the structure of your app. Then your function could become this:
@bot.event
async def on_voice_state_update(before, after):
if after.voice.voice_channel:
if not user.start_time: # this was set to None somewhere else
user.start_time = time.time()
# import datetime from datetime at the top of your file
timestrr = datetime.from_timestamp(user.start_time).strftime("%d.%m.%Y-%H:%M:%S")
voicezeit(after.id, timestrr)
else:
end_time = time.time()
voice_chat_time = end_time - after.user.start_time
strftime is a datetime function. If you need to use it, you can import datetime instead and set your variables to datetime.datetime.now().time module does have strftime but it only works with the current time. You could also use both time.time() and datetime.datetime.from_timestamp(start_time).strftime("%d.%m.%Y-%H:%M:%S") to get the string.start_time first. I will update my answer to make it clearer.
time.time()to record the time at point A and B?