time in python code example

Example 1: python time a funciton

import time

start = time.time()
print("hello")
end = time.time()
print(end - start)

Example 2: python time library

#also see datetime
import time
now = time.time()
print(now)

Example 3: python time method

from time import sleep, time

start = time()
sleep(2)
print(format(time() - start, '.3f'), 's', sep='') # 2.003s

Example 4: time.time()

from time import time

# 1 January 1970 is the standard date that all computers measure time against 
# Prints the number of seconds that have passed since 1 January 1970
print(time())

Example 5: time a function python

Proper answer to timing a loop over a function multiple times
import timeit
timeit.timeit('func_to_time()',globals=globals(),number=1000)

Example 6: time in python code

import datetime

x = datetime.datetime.now()

print(x)