time.clock()在Python 3.8中被移除，因为它具有平台相关的行为:

在Unix上，返回以秒表示的浮点数形式的当前处理器时间。 在Windows上，此函数以浮点数的形式返回自第一次调用该函数以来经过的时钟秒数 打印(time.clock ());time . sleep (10);print (time.clock ()) # Linux: 0.0382 0.0384 #参见处理器时间 # Windows: 26.1224 36.1566 #见clock Time

那么选择哪个函数呢?

Processor Time: This is how long this specific process spends actively being executed on the CPU. Sleep, waiting for a web request, or time when only other processes are executed will not contribute to this. Use time.process_time() Wall-Clock Time: This refers to how much time has passed "on a clock hanging on the wall", i.e. outside real time. Use time.perf_counter() time.time() also measures wall-clock time but can be reset, so you could go back in time time.monotonic() cannot be reset (monotonic = only goes forward) but has lower precision than time.perf_counter()

有一件事要记住: 修改系统时间会影响time.time()，但不会影响time.clock()。

我需要控制一些自动测试的执行。如果测试用例的一个步骤所花费的时间超过了给定的时间量，那么该TC就会中止以继续进行下一个步骤。

但是有时需要一个步骤来更改系统时间(检查被测试应用程序的调度器模块)，因此在几个小时后设置系统时间后，TC超时，测试用例被终止。我必须从time.time()切换到time.clock()来正确处理这个问题。

time.clock()在Python 3.8中被移除，因为它具有平台相关的行为:

在Unix上，返回以秒表示的浮点数形式的当前处理器时间。 在Windows上，此函数以浮点数的形式返回自第一次调用该函数以来经过的时钟秒数 打印(time.clock ());time . sleep (10);print (time.clock ()) # Linux: 0.0382 0.0384 #参见处理器时间 # Windows: 26.1224 36.1566 #见clock Time

那么选择哪个函数呢?

Processor Time: This is how long this specific process spends actively being executed on the CPU. Sleep, waiting for a web request, or time when only other processes are executed will not contribute to this. Use time.process_time() Wall-Clock Time: This refers to how much time has passed "on a clock hanging on the wall", i.e. outside real time. Use time.perf_counter() time.time() also measures wall-clock time but can be reset, so you could go back in time time.monotonic() cannot be reset (monotonic = only goes forward) but has lower precision than time.perf_counter()

从3.3开始，time.clock()已弃用，建议使用time.process_time()或time.perf_counter()。

在2.7之前，根据time模块docs:

time.clock() On Unix, return the current processor time as a floating point number expressed in seconds. The precision, and in fact the very definition of the meaning of “processor time”, depends on that of the C function of the same name, but in any case, this is the function to use for benchmarking Python or timing algorithms. On Windows, this function returns wall-clock seconds elapsed since the first call to this function, as a floating point number, based on the Win32 function QueryPerformanceCounter(). The resolution is typically better than one microsecond.

此外，还有timeit模块用于对代码段进行基准测试。

我使用这段代码来比较2种方法。我的操作系统是windows 8，处理器核心i5, RAM 4GB

import time

def t_time():
    start=time.time()
    time.sleep(0.1)
    return (time.time()-start)


def t_clock():
    start=time.clock()
    time.sleep(0.1)
    return (time.clock()-start)




counter_time=0
counter_clock=0

for i in range(1,100):
    counter_time += t_time()

    for i in range(1,100):
        counter_clock += t_clock()

print "time() =",counter_time/100
print "clock() =",counter_clock/100

输出:

time() = 0.0993799996376

clock() = 0.0993572257367

Clock() ->浮点数

返回CPU时间或进程启动后的实时时间 第一次调用clock()。这和系统的精度一样高 记录。

Time() ->浮点数

返回当前时间(以秒为单位)。 如果系统时钟提供，可能会出现几分之一秒。

通常time()更精确，因为操作系统存储进程运行时间的精度与存储系统时间(即实际时间)的精度不同。