how can i take time.ctime away from time.ctime

Question

Distance=200

import time

Time_started=time.ctime()
question=(input("has car gone pass sensor 1 \n:"))
if question=="yes":
        print ("the time is",Time_started,"seconds")

Time_ended=time.ctime()
question2=(input("has car gone pass sensor 2 \n:"))
if question2=="yes":
    print ("the time is",Time_ended,"seconds")
print ("")

Time_taken= (time.ctime() - Time_started)

print ("it took %f1 seconds" % Time_taken , "to travel 200m" )

i want to know if it is possible to take time.ctime away from each other to get the seconds by themselves

Answer 1

为什么不使用time.time（）代替time.ctime（）？

Answer 2

You can use: time.time() and time.ctime(secs)

Time_started=time.time()

If you want to convert that to something user friendly, you can do:

print ("the time is",time.ctime(Time_started))

Answer 3

You said you only wanted time.ctime because it is user friendly, so you can do this:

Use time.time() to initialize Time_started and Time_ended , and use them whenever you need to calculate something (eg, the difference between them). But when you want to print the time to the user, use time.ctime(Time_started) or time.ctime(Time_ended) . time.ctime will then return a pretty string that describes the time you supplied it with.