How do I get time of a Python program's execution?

Question

I have a command line program in Python that takes a while to finish. I want to know the exact time it takes to finish running.

I\'ve looked at the timeit

Answer 1

Even better for Linux: time

$ time -v python rhtest2.py

    Command being timed: "python rhtest2.py"
    User time (seconds): 4.13
    System time (seconds): 0.07
    Percent of CPU this job got: 91%
    Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:04.58
    Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
    Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
    Average stack size (kbytes): 0
    Average total size (kbytes): 0
    Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 0
    Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
    Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 15
    Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 5095
    Voluntary context switches: 27
    Involuntary context switches: 279
    Swaps: 0
    File system inputs: 0
    File system outputs: 0
    Socket messages sent: 0
    Socket messages received: 0
    Signals delivered: 0
    Page size (bytes): 4096
    Exit status: 0