默认情况下，Linux或Unix系统（在macOS上测试）在终端上附带时间命令，您可以使用该命令运行Python脚本，并获取执行运行脚本的真实用户系统时间信息。

然而，默认输出不是很清楚（至少对我来说是这样），默认时间命令甚至不接受任何选项作为参数来格式化输出。这是因为time有两个版本——一个内置在bash中，只提供最小版本，另一个位于/usr/bin/time上。

/usr/bin/time命令接受其他参数，如-al、-h、-p和-o。我最喜欢的是-p，它在新行中显示输出，如下所示：

real 2.18
user 17.92
sys 2.71

我也喜欢Paul McGuire的回答，并提出了一个更符合我需求的上下文管理器表单。

import datetime as dt
import timeit

class TimingManager(object):
    """Context Manager used with the statement 'with' to time some execution.

    Example:

    with TimingManager() as t:
       # Code to time
    """

    clock = timeit.default_timer

    def __enter__(self):
        """
        """
        self.start = self.clock()
        self.log('\n=> Start Timing: {}')

        return self

    def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb):
        """
        """
        self.endlog()

        return False

    def log(self, s, elapsed=None):
        """Log current time and elapsed time if present.
        :param s: Text to display, use '{}' to format the text with
            the current time.
        :param elapsed: Elapsed time to display. Dafault: None, no display.
        """
        print s.format(self._secondsToStr(self.clock()))

        if(elapsed is not None):
            print 'Elapsed time: {}\n'.format(elapsed)

    def endlog(self):
        """Log time for the end of execution with elapsed time.
        """
        self.log('=> End Timing: {}', self.now())

    def now(self):
        """Return current elapsed time as hh:mm:ss string.
        :return: String.
        """
        return str(dt.timedelta(seconds = self.clock() - self.start))

    def _secondsToStr(self, sec):
        """Convert timestamp to h:mm:ss string.
        :param sec: Timestamp.
        """
        return str(dt.datetime.fromtimestamp(sec))

我使用来自ttictoc的tic和toc。

pip install ttictoc

然后可以在脚本中使用：

from ttictoc import tic,toc
tic()

# foo()

print(toc())

time.clock（）

自3.3版起已弃用：此函数的行为取决于在平台上：改用perf_counter（）或process_time（），这取决于您的需求，以具有定义良好的行为。

time.perf_counter（）

返回性能计数器的值（以秒为单位），即具有最高可用分辨率的时钟来测量短路期间它包括睡眠期间的时间系统范围内。

time.process_time（）

返回系统和当前进程的用户CPU时间。它不包括经过的时间在睡眠期间。

start = time.process_time()
... do something
elapsed = (time.process_time() - start)

在Linux或Unix中：

$ time python yourprogram.py

在Windows中，请参阅StackOverflow问题：如何在Windows命令行上测量命令的执行时间？

对于更详细的输出，

$ time -v python yourprogram.py
    Command being timed: "python3 yourprogram.py"
    User time (seconds): 0.08
    System time (seconds): 0.02
    Percent of CPU this job got: 98%
    Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:00.10
    Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
    Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
    Average stack size (kbytes): 0
    Average total size (kbytes): 0
    Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 9480
    Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
    Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
    Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 1114
    Voluntary context switches: 0
    Involuntary context switches: 22
    Swaps: 0
    File system inputs: 0
    File system outputs: 0
    Socket messages sent: 0
    Socket messages received: 0
    Signals delivered: 0
    Page size (bytes): 4096
    Exit status: 0

这是保罗·麦奎尔的回答，对我来说很有用。以防有人在运行这个问题时遇到问题。

import atexit
from time import clock

def reduce(function, iterable, initializer=None):
    it = iter(iterable)
    if initializer is None:
        value = next(it)
    else:
        value = initializer
    for element in it:
        value = function(value, element)
    return value

def secondsToStr(t):
    return "%d:%02d:%02d.%03d" % \
        reduce(lambda ll,b : divmod(ll[0],b) + ll[1:],
            [(t*1000,),1000,60,60])

line = "="*40
def log(s, elapsed=None):
    print (line)
    print (secondsToStr(clock()), '-', s)
    if elapsed:
        print ("Elapsed time:", elapsed)
    print (line)

def endlog():
    end = clock()
    elapsed = end-start
    log("End Program", secondsToStr(elapsed))

def now():
    return secondsToStr(clock())

def main():
    start = clock()
    atexit.register(endlog)
    log("Start Program")

导入文件后，从程序中调用timing.main（）。