[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mar 3, 12:41 pm, Preston Landers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Run your command through the "time" program. You can parse the output
>> format of "time", or set a custom output format. This mostly applies
>> to Unix-like systems but there is probably an equivalent somewhere on
>> Windows.
>>
>> Preston
>
> Thanks for the quick answer. That seems to work, though, I'll write a
> timesubprocess() function which runs the program through time and
> spits the formatted out to a file, then parses that file, then returns
> the execution time. There doesn't appear to be a more elegant way to
> do this.
>
> Kevin
subprocess can do that easily.
What about something like this?
def timecall(args):
p = subprocess.Popen(['time', '--format', '%e %U %S'] + args,
stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
p.wait()
timings = p.stderr.readline().split()
assert len(timings) == 3
timings = tuple(float(t) for t in timings)
return timings
It returns (real, user, sys), in seconds. The program's stdout goes to
sys.stdout, I don't know where the program's stderr goes, and it really
doesn't handle errors, but it's got the basic idea.
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