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On May 3, 2015, at 10:22, Cecil Westerhof wrote:

> For testing I want my messages time stamped like:

For progress reporting, I often use the module below (eta.py), which =
also gives a projected time of completion:

import datetime, time, sys
etastart =3D 0

def eta(done, total, s, reportinterval=3D100, datetimeformat=3D"%d %b =
%H:%M:%S"):
    global etastart
    if done =3D=3D 0:
        etastart =3D datetime.datetime.now()
    if not done % reportinterval:
        noww =3D datetime.datetime.now()
        prtnow =3D noww.strftime(datetimeformat)
        if done:
            if not isinstance(etastart, datetime.datetime): raise =
RuntimeError("You should call eta() at least once with done=3D0")
            elapsed =3D noww - etastart
            secsperitem =3D float(elapsed.seconds) / done   =20
            totalsecs =3D secsperitem * total
            eta =3D etastart + datetime.timedelta(0, totalsecs)
            prteta =3D eta.strftime(datetimeformat)
            msg =3D "now %s, eta %s (%d/%d) %s" % (prtnow, prteta, done, =
total, s)
        else:
            msg =3D "now %s (%d/%d) %s" % (prtnow, done, total, s)
        sys.stderr.write(msg + "\n")
       =20
if __name__ =3D=3D "__main__":
    for i in range(10):
        eta(i, 10, "idling for ten seconds", 1, "%H:%M:%S")
        time.sleep(1)



--=20
"You can't actually make computers run faster, you can only make them do =
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