Permit formatting of time #1

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somedude · 2025-01-30T14:10:07Z

somedude commented

2025-01-30 14:10:07 +00:00

I am using the tictoc package to time my neural network calibration runs, which typically results in timeframes of hours rather than seconds. Please consider adding some way for developers to format the returned time, rather than having to keep copy/pasting it into the console and dividing by 60 a few times.

On delving through Python's assorted date-time libraries, possibly the easiest way to do this would be to (optionally) return the raw seconds value from the toc() call instead of printing it to the console, so that the developer can then convert it to an appropriate string. So you'd be able to write code like:

"Elapsed time: {d.hour} hours {d.minute} minutes {d.second} seconds".format(datetime.time(second=tictoc.toc(pass=True))

However I am unfamiliar both with Python extending and with Rust, so can't confirm whether this is viable.

I am using the tictoc package to time my neural network calibration runs, which typically results in timeframes of hours rather than seconds. Please consider adding some way for developers to format the returned time, rather than having to keep copy/pasting it into the console and dividing by 60 a few times. On delving through Python's assorted date-time libraries, possibly the easiest way to do this would be to (optionally) return the raw seconds value from the toc() call instead of printing it to the console, so that the developer can then convert it to an appropriate string. So you'd be able to write code like: `"Elapsed time: {d.hour} hours {d.minute} minutes {d.second} seconds".format(datetime.time(second=tictoc.toc(pass=True))` However I am unfamiliar both with Python extending and with Rust, so can't confirm whether this is viable.

andrew commented

2025-02-03 11:34:09 +00:00

Hi, thanks for raising this.

If I understand you correctly, I think that what you described is already possible in v0.2.0.

You can assign the output of your toc() call to a variable, which will be a struct containing the results. You can then use results.seconds to display the elapsed time as you please.

Here is an example using datetime.timedelta to format the output.

import time # just used to sleep, you won't need this

import datetime
from tictoc import tic,toc

tic()
time.sleep(70)  # sleep for 1m10s
results = toc() # <-- ASSIGN OUTPUT HERE

d = datetime.timedelta(seconds=results.seconds)
print(f"Elapsed time was {str(d)}")

This should print "Elapsed time was 0:01:10.000136", showing 0 hours, 1 minute and 10 seconds.

I'll consider this as a feature request, to have this formatting ability built in to the module.

Hi, thanks for raising this. If I understand you correctly, I think that what you described is already possible in v0.2.0. You can assign the output of your `toc()` call to a variable, which will be a struct containing the results. You can then use `results.seconds` to display the elapsed time as you please. Here is an example using `datetime.timedelta` to format the output. ```python import time # just used to sleep, you won't need this import datetime from tictoc import tic,toc tic() time.sleep(70) # sleep for 1m10s results = toc() # <-- ASSIGN OUTPUT HERE d = datetime.timedelta(seconds=results.seconds) print(f"Elapsed time was {str(d)}") ``` This should print `"Elapsed time was 0:01:10.000136"`, showing 0 hours, 1 minute and 10 seconds. I'll consider this as a feature request, to have this formatting ability built in to the module.

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