Time Difference
Peter Hansen
peter at engcorp.com
Fri Dec 17 13:54:54 EST 2004
GMane Python wrote:
> Hello
> I was wondering if there is an existing function that would let me
> determine the difference in time. To explain:
>
> Upon starting a program:
>
> startup = time.time()
>
> After some very long processing:
> now = time.time()
>
> print <days> <hours> <minutes> <seconds>, now - startup
>
> So, to print in a formatted way (D-H-M-S) the difference in time of startup
> and now.
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> startTime = datetime.now()
# processing....
>>> endTime = datetime.now()
>>> print 'elapsed', endTime - startTime
elapsed 0:00:09.063000
-Peter
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