title: How to make a timer program in Python
body: <p>Here is my goal: To make a small program (text based) that will start with a greeting, print out a timer for how long it has been since the last event, and then a timer for the event.
  I have used this code to start out with trying to figure out a timer, but my first problem is that the timer keeps repeating on a new line with each new second. How do I get that to stop? Also, this timer seems to lag behind actual seconds on the clock.</p>
  
  <pre><code>import os
  import time
  
  
  s=0
  m=0
  
  while s&lt;=60:
      os.system('cls')
      print (m, 'Minutes', s, 'Seconds')
      time.sleep(1)
      s+=1
      if s==60:
          m+=1
          s=0
  </code></pre>