API

Module et_stopwatch

A context manager class for timing a piece of code.

class et_stopwatch.Stopwatch(message='', ndigits=6)

Context manager class for timing a code fragment.

Usage:

with Stopwatch('This took me') as sw:
    for i in range(3):
        sleep(1)
        print(i,sw.timelapse(),'s)
        
 0 1.004215 s
 1 1.003996 s
 2 1.001949 s
 This took me 3.010238 s

Parameters:

• comment (str) – text in front of the total time. If None nothing is printed. Default is empty str,
• ndigits (int) – number of digits after the decimal sign.

start()

Start or restart this Stopwatch object.

stop()

Stop the Stopwatch object and return the number of seconds since it was started.

time

Return number of seconds between starting and stopping the stopwatch (for the last time)

timelapse()

Return number of seconds (float) since last call to timelapse (or to start if called for the first time).