code timer

[Curbie]

While researching code timing online, the following code kept getting the most thumbs-up and always seemed to have a depreciated warning in the comments.

import time
start_time = time.time()
print(ami.oct2dec(14976))
print("--- %s seconds ---" % (time.time() - start_time))

Can anyone point me to "proper" timing code?

[Gribouillis]

Use the standard library's timeit module. See also additional usage examples here.

For more substantial pieces of code, consider using a profiler such as the cProfile module.

[Curbie]

Thanks again Gribouillis,

On cursory use, it seems what I'm looking for.