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authorScott Gasch <[email protected]>2021-09-08 23:29:05 -0700
committerScott Gasch <[email protected]>2021-09-08 23:29:05 -0700
commit709370b2198e09f1dbe195fe8813602a3125b7f6 (patch)
tree5bbe521d7973f86526ed09d4411a5b3ff0e23aaa /stopwatch.py
parentb10d30a46e601c9ee1f843241f2d69a1f90f7a94 (diff)
Add doctests to some of this stuff.
Diffstat (limited to 'stopwatch.py')
-rw-r--r--stopwatch.py15
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/stopwatch.py b/stopwatch.py
index 1326cb1..cdd405b 100644
--- a/stopwatch.py
+++ b/stopwatch.py
@@ -6,11 +6,15 @@ from typing import Callable
class Timer(object):
"""
- with timer.Timer() as t:
- do_the_thing()
+ A stopwatch to time how long something takes (walltime).
- walltime = t()
- print(f'That took {walltime}s.')
+ e.g.
+
+ with timer.Timer() as t:
+ do_the_thing()
+
+ walltime = t()
+ print(f'That took {walltime} seconds.')
"""
def __init__(self) -> None:
@@ -18,6 +22,9 @@ class Timer(object):
self.end = None
def __enter__(self) -> Callable[[], float]:
+ """Returns a functor that, when called, returns the walltime of the
+ operation in seconds.
+ """
self.start = time.perf_counter()
self.end = 0.0
return lambda: self.end - self.start