On Apr 21, 9:09 pm, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am doing some simple timing of some elements of Python scripts, and > the simplest is to just call time.time() before and after key elements > of the script: > > t1 = time.time() > > # do lengthy operation > > t2 = time.time() > print "That took %f seconds" % (t2-t1) > > Unfortunately, this gives very ugly timing output, as just a floating > point number of seconds. After several iterations of writing a > formatter (strftime is not straightforward to use - it omits > milliseconds for one thing), I came up with this: > > def secondsToStr(t): > rediv = lambda ll,b : list(divmod(ll[0],b)) + ll[1:] > return "%d:%02d:%02d.%03d" % tuple(reduce(rediv,[[t*1000,], > 1000,60,60])) > > Now I can write: > > print "That took", secondsToStr(t2-t1),"seconds" > > and get nicely-formatted 0:00:12.345 style output. > > (I also posted this to the Python Cookbook.) > > -- Paul
Cute... for obfuscated python contests :-) Whenever I needed this, a simple "Completed in %d minutes and %.1f seconds" % divmod(end-start, 60) was more than enough. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
