measuring a function time

[Benjamin J. Racine]

I just use ipython's functions (that are themselves just calls to the time module functions) for timing my functions... 

Enter:
%timeit?
or
%time

At the Ipython command prompt to get started.

Ben R.

On Jul 29, 2010, at 7:43 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:45:23 -0400
> Joe Riopel <goon12 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Mahmood Naderan <nt_mahmood at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> the output should be 7600 (s) for example. What is the best and easiest way
>>> to do that?
>> 
>> Take a look at time.clock()
> 
> I don't know if that's what he wants.  The clock() method returns
> processor time, not wall time.
> 
> Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Jul  8 2010, 16:01:18) 
> [GCC 4.1.3 20080704 prerelease (NetBSD nb2 20081120)] on netbsd5
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> from time import time, clock, sleep
>>>> t = time()
>>>> print time() - t, clock()
> 0.000596046447754 0.03
>>>> sleep(3)
>>>> print time() - t, clock()
> 3.03474903107 0.03
>>>> x = open("BIGFILE").read()
>>>> print time() - t, clock()
> 10.2008538246 1.42
> 
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