Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> writes: > On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:42:58 +0200, Matteo Landi wrote: > >> This should be enough >> >>>>>import time >>>>>tic = time.time() >>>>>function() >>>>>toc = time.time() >>>>>print toc - tic > > You're typing that in the interactive interpreter, which means the > timer is counting the seconds while you're typing subsequent > commands. At the very least, you need to put that code into a > function.
Or, trivially improved as follows: >>> t0 = time.time(); function(); t1 = time.time() >>> print t1 - t0 This technique, while nowhere nearly as thorough as the timeit module, still gives useful results for simple measurements. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
