[Tutor] Timing a loop

[Ben Mazer]

I have written a small script that creates a bunch of small text files. 
I'm doing this because I want to benchmark file creation/deletion times 
on different file systems.

Im looking right now about how to time how long it takes to create the 
files. I looked at the Timeit() module, and that doesn't seem to work, 
its for small algorithms.

I also looked at time.clock(), but I can't get that to display an 
accurate readout, so I dont think that works (or Im not using it right).

I know I could use the UNIX "time" command, but it would be nice if 
Python had a built in function. They probably do, but I can't find it. :P

Any help you could provide on timing a loop would be really helpful.

OT: How many files can reiserfs hold? I keep hitting "file system full" 
limits when I get into large amounts of files (hundreds of thousands).

Thanks.
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