[Tutor] Timing a loop

[Ben Mazer]

amk at amk.ca wrote:
> You want time.time(), which returns "wall clock" time.  Your results will
> therefore vary depending on your system's load; if cron runs in the middle
> of your timing interval, you'll measure a longer time, so usually people
> make several runs, discard outliers, and average them.

> If you're using a big loop such as 'for i in range(100000)', you don't want
> to measure the time to create the list of 100000 integer objects, so you
> should write something like:
> 
> L = range(100000)
> s = time.time()
> for i in L:
>     ....
> e = time.time()
> print 'Total time:', e-s, 'sec'.

Thanks, that worked great. I can't believe I missed time.time().

:-D
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