Get timer ticks in Python

Question

I\'m just trying to time a piece of code. The pseudocode looks like:

start = get_ticks()
do_long_code()
print \"It took \" + (get_ticks() - start) + \" secon         


        

Answer 1

What you need is time() function from time module:

import time
start = time.time()
do_long_code()
print "it took", time.time() - start, "seconds."

You can use timeit module for more options though.