Steve Holden wrote: > On 10/24/2010 1:55 PM, mukkera harsha wrote: >> Hello >> I was wondering if there is an existing function that would let me >> determine the difference in time. To explain: >> >> Upon starting a program: >> >> startup = time.time() >> >> After some very long processing: >> now = time.time() >> >> >> On, doing now - startup I want the program to return in terms of days. How ? >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Harsha. >> > You'd probably be better off using the datetime module. That way you can > store datetime.datetime.now() at the start of your run and subtract > datetime.datetime.now() at the end, giving you a datetime.delta object > which contains days, seconds and microseconds: > >>>> import datetime >>>> t1 = datetime.datetime.now() > [waited a while] >>>> t2 = datetime.datetime.now() >>>> t2-t1 > datetime.timedelta(0, 16, 509000) >>>>
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