On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Eric Blossom
<address@hidden> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 02:05:12PM -0500, Bishal Thapa wrote:
> Hi,
> I have an interesting observation to share, and I want to see if anybody
> can help me shed some light. When I measure time in python in the following
> way:
>
> t1 = datetime.now()
> self.start()
> t2=datetime.now()
> diff = t2.microsecond - t1.microsecond
> print "Difference %d", diff
>
> I get very different time benchmarks..it goes from 309 microseconds
> (minimum) to all the way 1 second(max). Do you know why this thread spawning
> is taking such a variety of time after flowgraph start()??
I seriously doubt it ever take 309us :-)
If you subtract two datetimes you get a timedelta.
See the docs.
t1 = datetime.now()
self.start()
t2=datetime.now()
delta = t2 - t1
print delta
Eric