[Tutor] Evaluating program running time?

[Prasad, Ramit]

Odd, my previous email seems to have gotten lost

Cory,
See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/156330/get-timer-ticks-in-python
It is basically what Bob mentions, but with a few more details / alternatives.


Ramit



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-----Original Message-----
From: tutor-bounces+ramit.prasad=jpmchase.com at python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces+ramit.prasad=jpmchase.com at python.org] On Behalf Of bob gailer
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 2:49 PM
To: Cory Teshera-Sterne
Cc: tutor at python.org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Evaluating program running time?

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.

-- 
Bob Gailer
919-636-4239
Chapel Hill NC

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