How do you determine a processing time in Python?

Question

I\'m new to Python, and confused by the date/time documentation. I want to compute the time that it takes to perform a computation.

In java, I would write:

Answer 1

For some further information on how to determine the processing time, and a comparison of a few methods (some mentioned already in the answers of this post) - specifically, the difference between:

start = time.time()

versus the now obsolete (as of 3.3, time.clock() is deprecated)

start = time.clock()

see this other article on Stackoverflow here:

Python - time.clock() vs. time.time() - accuracy?

If nothing else, this will work good:

start = time.time()

... do something

elapsed = (time.time() - start)