I've been trying to figure this out for a while now and I haven't been able to. Basically what I want to do is get the Time it takes to complete a specific task.
For Example:
def find(x): if x in stuff: return "X was found, Search Time: [TIME IT TOOK]" I would like it to be something like "Search Time: 0.03 seconds". This is a really bad example but it's midnight and i'm trying to complete a python project for school so all answers are greatly appreciated.
Thanks
As I understand your goal, it's not a profiler that you're after. For something as simple as logging how long a specific processing step took (wall-clock time), I usually use time.time() to get the start and end times and take the difference of them.
Example:
import time start = time.time() # do something pass end = time.time() delta = end - start print "took %.2f seconds to process" % delta For a possibly greater resolution (microseconds), and for its independence from the system clock, also have a look at time.clock(). Note that this measures CPU time, not wall-clock time (at least on Linux - this may not be what you need).
For reference:
O(log(n))or whatever. I think its about time in seconds or microseconds.timeitis the right direction but it would be nice to see the best way of using it and saving the result at the same time