[Python-ideas] Timing hefty or long-running blocks of code

[Ron Adam]

On 06/02/2013 10:20 AM, Masklinn wrote:
> That's a profile. Note that you can add both timing and profiling with
> low syntactic overhead (via function decorators) through the
> profilehooks package (available on pypi): profilehooks.profile will do
> profiling runs on the function it decorates when that function is run,
> profilehook.timecall will just print the function's runtime. Both can be
> either immediate (print whatever's been collected for a call at the end
> of the call) or not immediate (print a summary of all calls when the
> program terminates):

Thanks, I'll definitely find this useful.


Seems like it would make a nice addition to the library.


>>> import profilehooks

>>> @profilehooks.timecall
... def immediate(n):
...     list(xrange(n))
...
>>> immediate(40000)

   immediate (<stdin>:1):
     0.002 seconds


It would be nice if the output included the function arguments, if they are 
not too long.  When running a script that information isn't as obvious as 
it is on a command line.


Cheers,
    Ron