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

import datetime

start = datetime.datetime.now()
do_long_code()
finish = datetime.datetime.now()
delta = finish - start
print delta.seconds

From midnight:

import datetime

midnight = datetime.datetime.now().replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0)
now = datetime.datetime.now()
delta = now - midnight
print delta.seconds