How could i get execution times ?

[Kragen Sitaker]

"Shagshag13" <shagshag13 at yahoo.fr> writes:
> I'm looking for a way to get execution time at different points of a program, by now i use the
> code below, but i've seen in some post that time.clock() could be a better way to measure this,
> 
> So my question, is how you pythoners do it ??? and to understand _why_ ?

time.time() gives wallclock time; time.clock() gives CPU time.