Short Notes on Python
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Timing, and memory, on Linux
Timing
On Linux, it's safer to use time.time()
import time t = time.time() # do some stuff print "stuff took %1.3f", time.time() - t, "seconds"
On Windows, AFAIK, it's safer to use time.clock()
Memory
For me, the following does a good job getting memory usage (in kB) on Linux:
import resource print resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss
Since resource is standard package, it should work on Windows too, but I don't know if it does, or what units are used if it works.
