ticktock

Simple Python code metering library.

ticktock is a minimalist library to view Python time performance of Python code.

First, install ticktock:

pip install py-ticktock

Then, anywhere in your code you can use tick to start a clock, and tock to register the end of the snippet you want to time:

t = tick()
# do some work
t.tock()

Even if the code is called many times within a loop, measured times will only periodially (2 seconds by default):

import time
from ticktock import tick

for _ in range(1000):
    t = tick()
    # do some work
    time.sleep(1)
    t.tock()

You can create multiple independent ticks, which will appear as two separate clocks:

for _ in range(1000):
    t = tick()
    # do some work
    time.sleep(1)
    t.tock()

    t = tick()
    # do some other work
    time.sleep(0.5)
    t.tock()

Ticks can share a common starting point:

for k in range(1000):
    t = tick()
    # do some work
    time.sleep(1)
    if k % 2 == 1:
        time.sleep(1)
        t.tock()
    else:
        t.tock()

It is also possible to use ticktock as a context manager to track the timing of a chunk of code:

from ticktock import ticktock

with ticktock():
    time.sleep(1)

Or a decorator, to track the timing of each call to a function:

from ticktock import ticktock

@ticktock
def f():
    time.sleep(1)

f()