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Re: Function to show time to execute another function

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On 07/06/2015 09:22, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> On Sunday  7 Jun 2015 09:39 CEST, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>
>> 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
>> https://docs.python.org/3/library/profile.html
>
> That only times the function. I explicitly mentioned I want both the
> needed time AND the output.
>
> Sadly the quality of the answers on this list is going down. Here I
> get an alternative that does only half what I want and when writing an
> alternative for ‘!find’ I am told I could use ‘!find’ (which only
> works in ipython, not python and which also not works with Windows).
>

I suggest that you stop asking so many question here.  Get your cheque 
book and go for paid support.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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Function to show time to execute another function Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-07 08:39 +0200
  Re: Function to show time to execute another function Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-06-07 08:39 +0100
    Re: Function to show time to execute another function Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-07 10:22 +0200
      Re: Function to show time to execute another function Luca Menegotto <otlucaDELETE@DELETEyahoo.it> - 2015-06-07 11:06 +0200
        Is it a newsgroup or a list? random832@fastmail.us - 2015-06-07 07:20 -0400
          Re: Is it a newsgroup or a list? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-06-07 21:45 +1000
            Re: Is it a newsgroup or a list? Chris Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2015-06-07 15:10 +0200
            Re: Is it a newsgroup or a list? Luca Menegotto <otlucaDELETE@DELETEyahoo.it> - 2015-06-07 16:12 +0200
        Re: Function to show time to execute another function Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-07 13:53 +0200
        Re: Is it a newsgroup or a list? Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2015-06-07 14:57 +0100
      Re: Function to show time to execute another function Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-06-07 11:16 +0100
        [OT] Re: Function to show time to execute another function Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-06-07 14:02 +0300
          Re: [OT] Re: Function to show time to execute another function Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-06-07 12:12 +0100
        Re: Function to show time to execute another function Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-06-07 21:29 +1000
        Re: Function to show time to execute another function Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-07 14:03 +0200
      Re: Function to show time to execute another function Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2015-06-07 12:05 +0100
        Re: Function to show time to execute another function Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-07 14:43 +0200
      Re: Function to show time to execute another function Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-07 15:03 +0200
      Re: Function to show time to execute another function Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2015-06-07 20:51 +0200
        Re: Function to show time to execute another function Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-07 22:35 +0200
          Re: Function to show time to execute another function Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2015-06-08 07:04 +0200
            Re: Function to show time to execute another function Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-08 08:32 +0200
  Re: Function to show time to execute another function Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-06-07 19:28 +1000
    Re: Function to show time to execute another function Luca Menegotto <otlucaDELETE@DELETEyahoo.it> - 2015-06-07 11:44 +0200
    Re: Function to show time to execute another function Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-07 14:14 +0200
    Re: Function to show time to execute another function Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-07 14:58 +0200
  Re: Function to show time to execute another function Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-06-07 19:51 +1000
    Re: Function to show time to execute another function Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-07 14:27 +0200
  Re: Function to show time to execute another function Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-07 11:31 +0200
  Re: Is it a newsgroup or a list? Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2015-06-07 11:49 -0400
  Re: Is it a newsgroup or a list? Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2015-06-07 11:56 -0400

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