time in seconds in python code example

Example 1: time.time()

from time import time

# 1 January 1970 is the standard date that all computers measure time against 
# Prints the number of seconds that have passed since 1 January 1970
print(time())

Example 2: python time seconds

import time

# seconds passed since epoch
seconds = 1545925769.9618232
local_time = time.ctime(seconds)
print("Local time:", local_time)

Example 3: time python

#import time module:
import time
#module has various attributes: 
dir(time)
[..., 'localtime', 'mktime', 'sleep', 'sleep_ms', 'sleep_us', 'ticks_add', 'ticks_cpu', 'ticks_diff', 'ticks_ms', 'ticks_us', 'time']

#default expression is in seconds with zero being start of runtime
secFromStart = time.time()