check time in python code example

Example 1: getting time python

import datetime
 
currentDT = datetime.datetime.now()
print(str(currentDT))

# prints XXXX-XX-XX XX:XX:XX.XXXXXX
# or

import datetime
 
currentDT = datetime.datetime.now()
 
print ("Current Year is: %d" % currentDT.year)
print ("Current Month is: %d" % currentDT.month)
print ("Current Day is: %d" % currentDT.day)
print ("Current Hour is: %d" % currentDT.hour)
print ("Current Minute is: %d" % currentDT.minute)
print ("Current Second is: %d" % currentDT.second)
print ("Current Microsecond is: %d" % currentDT.microsecond)
# prints
"""
Current Year is: XXXX
Current Month is: XX
Current Day is: XX
Current Hour is: XX
Current Minute is: XX
Current Second is: XX
Current Microsecond is: XXXXXX
"""

Example 2: record the amount of time ittales for code to run python

from time import time

start = time()
#code here
print(f'Time taken to run: {time() - start} seconds'

Example 3: how to record execution time in python

import time

start = time.time()
print("hello")
end = time.time()
print(end - start)

Example 4: get time pithon

"""Imports the datetime package from the Python library"""
from datetime import datetime

"""Sets the variable now to the current date and time"""
now = datetime.now()

"""The variable current_time contains the string values of the current time"""
current_time = now.strftime("%H:%M:%S")
print("Current Time =", current_time)

Example 5: print time in python

import time

t = time.localtime()
current_time = time.strftime("%H:%M:%S", t)
print(current_time)

Example 6: python how to measure code run in time

import time
start_time = time.time()
main()
print("--- %s seconds ---" % (time.time() - start_time))