have a look at the "timeit" module aswell
GregM wrote: > Hi, > I'm hoping that someone can point me in the right direction with this. > What I would like to do is calculate the average time it takes to load > a page. I've been searching the net and reading lots but I haven't > found anything that helps too much. I'm testing our web site and hiting > +6000 urls per test. Here is a subset of what I'm doing. > > import IEC > #IE controller from http://www.mayukhbose.com/python/IEC/index.php > from win32com.client import Dispatch > import time > import datetime > from sys import exc_info, stdout, argv, exit > failedlinks = [] > links = open(testfile).readlines() > totalNumberTests = len(links) > ie = IEC.IEController() > start = datetime.datetime.today() > # asctime() returns a human readable time stamp whereas time() doesn't > startTimeStr = time.asctime() > for link in links: > start = datetime.datetime.today() > ie.Navigate(link) > end = datetime.datetime.today() > pagetext = ie.GetDocumentText() > #check the returned web page for some things > if not (re.search(searchterm, pagetext): > failedlinks.append(link) > ie.CloseWindow() > finised = datetime.datetime.today() > finishedTimeStr = time.asctime() > # then I print out results, times and etc. > > So: > 1. Is there a better time function to use? > > 2. To calculate the average times do I need to split up min, sec, and > msec and then just do a standard average calculation or is there a > better way? > > 3. is there a more efficient way to do this? > > 4. kind of OT but is there any control like this for Mozilla or > firefox? > > This is not intended to be any sort of load tester just a url > validation and page check. > > Thanks in advance. > Greg. > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
