[Tutor] time taken to execute certain task

[Modulok]

On 3/16/11, tee chwee liong <tcl76 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> i would like to know the time taken to execute a certain task in python. i
> used time.time and time.clock and i see the time taken is different? what is
> the right method to use?
>
> import time
> def testtime(num):
>     start=time.time()
>     #print start
>     for n in range(num):
>         #print n
>         print time.time()-start
>
> testtime(101)
>
> start = time.clock()
> for x in range(101):
>   y = x  # do something
> end = time.clock()
> print "Time clock elapsed = ", end - start, "seconds"
>
> thanks
> tcl
>

Also look into the builtin module 'timeit' if you're trying to benchmark things.
-Modulok-