How can i stop pygame.time.set_timer?

November 21, 2021

I want to print the message 3 times. After then how can i stop pygame.time.set_timer in this example?

import pygame
 
pygame.init()
 
print_message = pygame.USEREVENT + 0

pygame.time.set_timer(print_message, 1000)

while True:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == print_message: 
            print("stop now ")`

>Solution :

this might not be the best solution but you can set the variable "print_message" to some thing else when you want it to stop

like this:

import pygame
 
pygame.init()
 
print_message = pygame.USEREVENT + 0

pygame.time.set_timer(print_message, 1000)

while True:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == print_message: 
            print("stop now ")
            print_message = 0