[Tutor] Tutor] Re: newbie looking for code suggestions

[Lance]

I wonder how often the clock tics.... It seems to tic only every second on
our Solaris box.

Lance

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregor Lingl" <glingl@aon.at>
To: "Bob Roher" <shiska@swbell.net>
Cc: "Tutor" <tutor@python.org>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 1:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Tutor] Re: newbie looking for code suggestions


> Bob Roher schrieb:
>
> >Is there a way to import time into the program, say
> >before the loop starts and have it compare start and stop times
> >to give some idea of cpu time?  I would like to have some idea of
> >time used when I try some of the ideas I've seen here.
> >
> >
> >
> You may use this function:
>
> from time import clock
>
> def gettime(repetitions, function, *arguments):
>     start = clock()
>     for i in range(repetitions):
>         function(*arguments)
>     end = clock()
>     return end - start
>
>
> which measures the time used for repetitions repetitions
> of the function function with an arbitrary number of arguments.
> Regards
> Gregor
>
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