If you'd like to measure and display the elapsed time during some operation in Python, probably the easiest way is to create a timestamp before
and after the operation using time.time() and compute the difference.
In the following code the do_something is just some arbitrary function that takes slightly more than 1 seconds to run on my computer.
examples/elapsed_time_in_seconds.py
import time
def main():
start = time.time()
do_something()
end = time.time()
print(end - start)
print(int(end - start))
def do_something():
for a in range(50000000):
b = a*a
main()
The result looks like this:
1.429948091506958
1
Handle big numbers
If the elapsed time is small then you'd be probably interested in a few digits after the decimal point, but if the elapsed time is long, lik 100 or 1000 seconds then you'd probably want a more Human readable format of the elapsed time
