Popular recipes tagged "timer"

Countdown Timer (Python)

2012-12-06T03:24:35-08:00

Python recipe 578363 by Stephen Chappell (demonstration, sound, timer, utility).

Ever wanted to set a timer that went off after a specified number of hours / minutes / seconds? This Windows recipe runs on the command line and does that with the arguments it accepts. Simple but effective, the program works well for remembering food in the oven among other things.

Benchmark code with the with statement (Python)

2011-10-08T09:53:06-07:00

Python recipe 577896 by Steven D'Aprano (benchmark, speed, time, timer).

Inspired by this post I wrote this context manager to benchmark code blocks or function calls.

Usage is incredibly simple:

with Timer():
    ...  # code to benchmark goes here

The time taken (in seconds) will be printed when the code block completes. To capture the time taken programmatically is almost as easy:

t = Timer()
with t:
    ...  # code to benchmark goes here
time_taken = t.interval

Due to the difficulties of timing small snippets of code accurately, you should only use this for timing code blocks or function calls which take a significant amount of time to process. For micro-benchmarks, you should use the timeit module.

Benchmark code with the with statement (Python)

2011-10-10T04:30:11-07:00

Python recipe 577900 by vleon (benchmark, speed, time, timer).

Inspired by this post I wrote this context manager to benchmark code blocks or function calls.

Usage is incredibly simple:

with Timer():
    ...  # code to benchmark goes here

The time taken (in seconds) will be printed when the code block completes. To capture the time taken programmatically is almost as easy:

t = Timer()
with t:
    ...  # code to benchmark goes here
time_taken = t.interval

PythonTimer (Python)

2011-04-11T19:53:17-07:00

Python recipe 577646 by Narendra Sisodiya (timer). Revision 2.

import PythonTimer

t = PythonTimer.TickTockTimer()

t.StartTimer()

t.GetTime()

3.9744668006896973

t.Pause()

t.UnPause()

Resettable Timer class (a little enhancement from python builtin Timer class) (Python)

2010-09-24T08:37:58-07:00

Python recipe 577407 by Eddy Jacob (reset, resettable, timer).

A more simple resettable timer class, by adding few logic from python builtin Timer code. the print statement in each function call is for debugging purposes only, to show if it works.

Pomodoro timer (Python)

2010-08-14T11:48:18-07:00

Python recipe 577358 by Noufal Ibrahim (gtd, pomodoro, timer).

A simple script that works as a pomodoro timer. Useful to enhance ones focus while working on something. The Pomodoro technique is described at http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/

This script is an offline version of http://www.focusboosterapp.com/live.cfm

It requires the Mpg123 program to play the audio and I obtained the ticking sounds from http://www.soundjay.com/clock-sounds-1.html

Interval Execute a function (Python)

2009-04-24T08:58:27-07:00

Python recipe 576726 by Shao-chuan Wang (thread, timer). Revision 4.

Here I just want to keep it simple. If you want to execute a function every n second, this function should be competent. However, please note that the task is actually executed in another thread.

Simple MultiThreaded Timer Job Controller (Python)

2009-05-11T02:05:16-07:00

Python recipe 576748 by sumerc (job, multithread, task, timer). Revision 2.

We have tried to write an audit for our server to check our server's connection, status and other internal info and there are multiple threads invoking multiple tasks. So I came up with this simple utility that takes a job and runs it in a specific interval.