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

If you have many statements you want to time, you could use something like this:

class Ticker:
    def __init__(self):
        self.t = clock()

    def __call__(self):
        dt = clock() - self.t
        self.t = clock()
        return 1000 * dt

Then your code could look like:

tick = Ticker()
# first command
print('first took {}ms'.format(tick())
# second group of commands
print('second took {}ms'.format(tick())
# third group of commands
print('third took {}ms'.format(tick())

That way you don't need to type t = time() before each block and 1000 * (time() - t) after it, while still keeping control over formatting (though you could easily put that in Ticket too).

It's a minimal gain, but I think it's kind of convenient.