Get timer ticks in Python

Question

I\'m just trying to time a piece of code. The pseudocode looks like:

start = get_ticks()
do_long_code()
print \"It took \" + (get_ticks() - start) + \" secon         


        

Answer 1

Here's a solution that I started using recently:

class Timer:
    def __enter__(self):
        self.begin = now()

    def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
        print(format_delta(self.begin, now()))

You use it like this (You need at least Python 2.5):

with Timer():
    do_long_code()

When your code finishes, Timer automatically prints out the run time. Sweet! If I'm trying to quickly bench something in the Python Interpreter, this is the easiest way to go.

And here's a sample implementation of 'now' and 'format_delta', though feel free to use your preferred timing and formatting method.

import datetime

def now():
    return datetime.datetime.now()

# Prints one of the following formats*:
# 1.58 days
# 2.98 hours
# 9.28 minutes # Not actually added yet, oops.
# 5.60 seconds
# 790 milliseconds
# *Except I prefer abbreviated formats, so I print d,h,m,s, or ms. 
def format_delta(start,end):

    # Time in microseconds
    one_day = 86400000000
    one_hour = 3600000000
    one_second = 1000000
    one_millisecond = 1000

    delta = end - start

    build_time_us = delta.microseconds + delta.seconds * one_second + delta.days * one_day

    days = 0
    while build_time_us > one_day:
        build_time_us -= one_day
        days += 1

    if days > 0:
        time_str = "%.2fd" % ( days + build_time_us / float(one_day) )
    else:
        hours = 0
        while build_time_us > one_hour:
            build_time_us -= one_hour
            hours += 1
        if hours > 0:
            time_str = "%.2fh" % ( hours + build_time_us / float(one_hour) )
        else:
            seconds = 0
            while build_time_us > one_second:
                build_time_us -= one_second
                seconds += 1
            if seconds > 0:
                time_str = "%.2fs" % ( seconds + build_time_us / float(one_second) )
            else:
                ms = 0
                while build_time_us > one_millisecond:
                    build_time_us -= one_millisecond
                    ms += 1
                time_str = "%.2fms" % ( ms + build_time_us / float(one_millisecond) )
    return time_str

Please let me know if you have a preferred formatting method, or if there's an easier way to do all of this!