Function to show time to execute another function

[Mark Lawrence]

On 07/06/2015 07:39, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> Sometimes I just want to know how much time a function takes, but at
> the same time I also want the result of the function. For this I wrote
> the following function:
>      def time_test(function, *args):
>          startTime   = time.time()
>          results     = function(*args)
>          endTime     = time.time()
>          print('It took {0} seconds'.format(endTime - startTime))
>          return results
>
> I can do:
>      time_test(test_random, 100, 10 ** 5)
> This outputs:
>      It took 17.01685857772827 seconds
> and returns:
>      (98592, 100833, 0.977775133140936)
>
> When executing:
>      time_test(test_random, 100, 10 ** 6)
> it outputs:
>      It took 165.26371836662292 seconds
> and returns:
>      (997103, 1002009, 0.9951038363926871)
>

https://docs.python.org/3/library/timeit.html
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Mark Lawrence