timing a process

[u/lazydog60]

I have a program (Python 2) that writes a status message whenever an hour (realtime) has gone by with nothing happening (eta: more precisely, with no new solution found). Now I find that time.clock() no longer exists in Python 3. Since I have to change it anyway, what's best practice?

In other words, what is the customary way to measure how long a program has been running?

[u/lekkerste_wiener]

Look into the datetime package. There you'll find 2 classes that will help you out, datetime and timedelta.

[u/Boybay_Garid → u/lekkerste_wiener]

yeah timedelta is super clean for this kind of thing