I've created lauda, a little python module to measure time. You can install it with
pip install lauda you can find the source code on Github: https://github.com/astagi/lauda You can use lauda StopWatch to measure a portion of code from lauda import StopWatch watch = StopWatch() watch.start() for i in range(10000000): pass watch.stop() print ('Time spent in range {0}'.format(watch.elapsed_time)) If you want to measure an entire function execution, you can decorate it using the stopwatch decorator from lauda import stopwatch @stopwatch def awesome_mul(a, b): return a * b By default stopwatch decorator will print the time spent inside the decorated function, if you want more control you can pass to your decorator a callback that will receive a StopWatch instance and the decorated function. from lauda import stopwatch def stopwatch_sum_cb(watch, function): print ('Time spent {0}'.format(watch.elapsed_time)) @stopwatch(callback=stopwatch_sum_cb) def awesome_sum(a, b): return a + b -- Andrea Stagi (@4stagi) - Develover @Nephila Job profile: http://linkedin.com/in/andreastagi Website: http://4spills.blogspot.it/ Github: http://github.com/astagi -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/