Re: Function to show time to execute another function

[Mark Lawrence]

On 07/06/2015 07:39, Cecil Westerhof wrote:

Sometimes I just want to know how much time a function takes, but at
the same time I also want the result of the function. For this I wrote
the following function:
     def time_test(function, *args):
         startTime   = time.time()
         results     = function(*args)
         endTime     = time.time()
         print('It took {0} seconds'.format(endTime - startTime))
         return results

I can do:
     time_test(test_random, 100, 10 ** 5)
This outputs:
     It took 17.01685857772827 seconds
and returns:
     (98592, 100833, 0.977775133140936)

When executing:
     time_test(test_random, 100, 10 ** 6)
it outputs:
     It took 165.26371836662292 seconds
and returns:
     (997103, 1002009, 0.9951038363926871)

https://docs.python.org/3/library/timeit.html
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