[issue19495] context manager for measuring duration of blocks of code

Nick Coghlan added the comment: I think Caleb's "sample_before_and_after" idea hints that this may be an idea that could benefit from the ExitStack treatment where contextlib provides a building block that handles the interaction with the context management machinery, with the documentation

[issue19495] context manager for measuring duration of blocks of code

Caleb Hattingh added the comment: Somehow I missed that there's been an open issue on this. Like others I've written a bunch of different incarnations of an "elapsed" context manager over the years. Always for the more crude "how long did this take" reason like David mentioned, never the

[issue19495] context manager for measuring duration of blocks of code

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[issue19495] context manager for measuring duration of blocks of code

R. David Murray added the comment: FWIW, we just ran in to the need for this on our project, and used 'Time' from the contexttimer package on pypi. In our use case we want the number so we can log it, and what we care about is the actual elapsed time, not a precise

[issue19495] context manager for measuring duration of blocks of code

Cheryl Sabella added the comment: Hello everyone, I was interested in similar functionality for timeit and found this discussion. I know it's too late for 3.7, but I was wondering if it would be worth putting this on python-ideas or python-dev to try to get some consensus

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