timing python functions

One normally would use the magic %timeit function() to time how fast a python function is. For my purposes, I need to test nested functions that aren’t simple to call on their own; to do this I usually just print out the start and end time, but I frequently forget the syntax.

import time
start_time = time.strftime("%H:%M:%S",time.localtime())
end_time = time.strftime("%H:%M:%S",time.localtime())
print(r'START: %s END: %s' % (start_time, end_time))

A little manual subtraction is in order…and I’m sure there’s a simpler way to have python do this, but it suites my needs at this point.

Robert Thompson

timing python functions

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