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

There is a timeit module which can be used to time the execution times of Python code.

It has detailed documentation and examples in Python documentation, 26.6. timeit — Measure execution time of small code snippets.