How do you calculate program run time in python?
Quick alternative
import timeit
start = timeit.default_timer()
#Your statements here
stop = timeit.default_timer()
print('Time: ', stop - start)
I don't know if this is a faster alternative, but I have another solution -
from datetime import datetime
start=datetime.now()
#Statements
print datetime.now()-start
You might want to take a look at the timeit
module:
http://docs.python.org/library/timeit.html
or the profile
module:
http://docs.python.org/library/profile.html
There are some additionally some nice tutorials here:
http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/profile/index.html
http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/timeit/index.html
And the time
module also might come in handy, although I prefer the later two recommendations for benchmarking and profiling code performance:
http://docs.python.org/library/time.html