Handy short cut for formatting elapsed time in floating point seconds

[George Sakkis]

On Apr 21, 9:09 pm, Paul McGuire <p... at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> I am doing some simple timing of some elements of Python scripts, and
> the simplest is to just call time.time() before and after key elements
> of the script:
>
> t1 = time.time()
>
> # do lengthy operation
>
> t2 = time.time()
> print "That took %f seconds" % (t2-t1)
>
> Unfortunately, this gives very ugly timing output, as just a floating
> point number of seconds.  After several iterations of writing a
> formatter (strftime is not straightforward to use - it omits
> milliseconds for one thing), I came up with this:
>
> def secondsToStr(t):
>     rediv = lambda ll,b : list(divmod(ll[0],b)) + ll[1:]
>     return "%d:%02d:%02d.%03d" % tuple(reduce(rediv,[[t*1000,],
> 1000,60,60]))
>
> Now I can write:
>
> print "That took", secondsToStr(t2-t1),"seconds"
>
> and get nicely-formatted 0:00:12.345 style output.
>
> (I also posted this to the Python Cookbook.)
>
> -- Paul

Cute... for obfuscated python contests :-) Whenever I needed this, a
simple
"Completed in %d minutes and %.1f seconds" % divmod(end-start, 60)
was more than enough.

George