Question

i have a loop that runs for up to a few hours at a time. how could I have it tell me how long it has been at a set interval?

just a generic…question

EDIT: it’s a while loop that runs permutations, so can i have it print the time running every 10 seconds?

Answer 1

Instead of checking the time on every loop, you can use a Timer object

import time
from threading import Timer

def timeout_handler(timeout=10):
    print time.time()
    timer = Timer(timeout, timeout_handler)
    timer.start()

timeout_handler()
while True:
    print "loop"
    time.sleep(1)