Do Python timers have the ability to measure multiple intervals in the same timer object? I have a program that loops over thousands of objects and performs several actions e.g.: downloading, process, store, analyze). I'd like to be able to measure the cumulative time of each individual step when performed many times, but in a larger block of code that does other things. Is there any way to start and then stop (pause) timers, and then re-start them to measure some more time? Something like the following pseudocode? import timeit download_timer = <create a timer> processing_timer = <create a timer> for item_id in big_list_of_items: download_timer.start() slow_response = download_data(item_id) download_timer.pause() processing_timer.start() munge_data(slow_response) processing_timer.pause() log.debug('Cumulative download time: {} sec'.format(download_timer.elapsed)) log.debug('Cumulative data processing time: {} sec'.format(processing_timer.elapsed)) I am currently creating a new timer on each loop and then I have to keep track of the time in multiple variables that I add each increment to. Perusing the docs, it looks like that's the best option, short of creating my own class to do this, but I was hoping someone knows of a simpler way. Continue reading...
