time in ipython code example

Example 1: time in python

import time
thistime = time.time()
# Here's an idea!
def CountTime():
  while(True):
    time.sleep(1)
    print(thistime)
CountTime()

Example 2: 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()