[Python-ideas] Timer that starts as soon as it is imported
anatoly techtonik
techtonik at gmail.com
Tue May 26 20:05:06 CEST 2015
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:59:30PM +0300, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is the idea to have timer that starts on import is good?
>
> No, because:
>
> -- it could be imported at the wrong time;
Any time is right.
> -- it couldn't be "reimported"; what is the usage of one-time timer?
The idea is to have convenient default timer to measure
script run-time.
> -- if it could be reset and restarted at need -- why not start it
> manually in the first place?
Current ways of measuring script run-time are not cross-platform or
not memorizable. I have to reinvent timer code a couple of times, and
that's not convenient for the code that is only relevant while debugging.
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