Python speed testing - Time Difference - milliseconds

datetime.timedelta is just the difference between two datetimes ... so it's like a period of time, in days / seconds / microseconds

>>> import datetime
>>> a = datetime.datetime.now()
>>> b = datetime.datetime.now()
>>> c = b - a

>>> c
datetime.timedelta(0, 4, 316543)
>>> c.days
0
>>> c.seconds
4
>>> c.microseconds
316543

Be aware that c.microseconds only returns the microseconds portion of the timedelta! For timing purposes always use c.total_seconds().

You can do all sorts of maths with datetime.timedelta, eg:

>>> c / 10
datetime.timedelta(0, 0, 431654)

It might be more useful to look at CPU time instead of wallclock time though ... that's operating system dependant though ... under Unix-like systems, check out the 'time' command.

You might want to use the timeit module instead.

You could also use:

import time

start = time.clock()
do_something()
end = time.clock()
print "%.2gs" % (end-start)

Or you could use the python profilers.

The following code should display the time detla...

from datetime import datetime

tstart = datetime.now()

# code to speed test

tend = datetime.now()
print tend - tstart

You could simply print the difference:

print tend - tstart

I am not a Python programmer, but I do know how to use Google and here's what I found: you use the "-" operator. To complete your code:

from datetime import datetime

tstart = datetime.now()

# code to speed test

tend = datetime.now()
print tend - tstart

Additionally, it looks like you can use the strftime() function to format the timespan calculation in order to render the time however makes you happy.

You may want to look into the profile modules. You'll get a better read out of where your slowdowns are, and much of your work will be full-on automated.

Arrow: Better dates & times for Python

import arrow
start_time = arrow.utcnow()
end_time = arrow.utcnow()
(end_time - start_time).total_seconds()  # senconds
(end_time - start_time).total_seconds() * 1000  # milliseconds

time.time() / datetime is good for quick use, but is not always 100% precise. For that reason, I like to use one of the std lib profilers (especially hotshot) to find out what's what.

Here is a custom function that mimic's Matlab's/Octave's tic toc functions.

Example of use:

time_var = time_me(); # get a variable with the current timestamp

... run operation ...

time_me(time_var); # print the time difference (e.g. '5 seconds 821.12314 ms')

Function :

def time_me(*arg):
    if len(arg) != 0: 
        elapsedTime = time.time() - arg[0];
        #print(elapsedTime);
        hours = math.floor(elapsedTime / (60*60))
        elapsedTime = elapsedTime - hours * (60*60);
        minutes = math.floor(elapsedTime / 60)
        elapsedTime = elapsedTime - minutes * (60);
        seconds = math.floor(elapsedTime);
        elapsedTime = elapsedTime - seconds;
        ms = elapsedTime * 1000;
        if(hours != 0):
            print ("%d hours %d minutes %d seconds" % (hours, minutes, seconds)) 
        elif(minutes != 0):
            print ("%d minutes %d seconds" % (minutes, seconds))
        else :
            print ("%d seconds %f ms" % (seconds, ms))
    else:
        #print ('does not exist. here you go.');
        return time.time()

You need to use time.time() instead, which outputs unix time with high precision.

Use this code:

from time import time

tstart = time()
doSomething()
tend = time()
difference = tend - tstart
print("The doSomething function took {} seconds to execute".format(difference))

start = datetime.now() 

#code for which response time need to be measured.

end = datetime.now()
dif = end - start
dif_micro = dif.microseconds # time in microseconds
dif_millis = dif.microseconds / 1000 # time in millisseconds

In case anyone needs something like this to analyze delays between log entries for example ... etc.

def get_time_diff_between_timestruct_tuples(timestruct_tuples):
    """
    expecting input like:
    [(0, datetime.datetime(2021, 10, 27, 16, 6, 8, 590892)),
    (1, datetime.datetime(2021, 10, 27, 16, 6, 8, 591833)),
    (2, datetime.datetime(2021, 10, 27, 16, 6, 9, 434053)),
    (3, datetime.datetime(2021, 10, 27, 16, 6, 9, 878021)), ...]
    
    output like:
    [0.941, 0.84222, 0.443968, ...]
    """
    
    def seconds_mms_diff(t0, t1):
        diff = t1 - t0
        s = diff.seconds
        mms = diff.microseconds
        return float(f"{s}.{mms}")
    
    timediffs = []
    init = timestruct_tuples[0][1]
    idx = 0
    while idx < (len(timestruct_tuples)-1):
        timediffs.append(seconds_mms_diff(init, timestruct_tuples[idx+1][1]))
        idx += 1
        init = timestruct_tuples[idx][1]
    return timediffs