Script in Python to run a C program

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <00092100044500.01350 at localhost.localdomain>,
The Majestic Moined Mogul  <mogulNOSPAM at primus.ca> wrote:
>Could someone please tell me how to best write a Python script that could
>execute a C program several times and compare the run times of each?

times = []
for i in range(numTests):
  start = time.time()
  os.system(cmd)
  end = time.time()
  times.append( (start,end) )

I don't claim this is "best", but it sure is simple.  You might want to
include a call to os.system(cmd) before the loop to pre-load the disk
cache.
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