[Tutor] Evaluating program running time?

[bob gailer]

On 4/8/2011 2:29 PM, Cory Teshera-Sterne wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a small(ish) Python program, and I need to be able to log the 
> running time. This isn't something I've ever really encountered, and 
> I've been led to believe it can be a little hairy. Are there any 
> Python-specific approaches to this? I found the "timeit" module, but 
> that doesn't seem to be quite what I'm looking for.

I like to use the time module

import time
start = time.time()
rest of program
print time.time() - start

I believe that gives best precisioni on *nix
On Windows use time.clock() )instead.

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Bob Gailer
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