Question

I have a timing module:

start_timing = time.time()
#stuff happening here    
report_timing["INT_MODULE"] = time.time()- start_timing

If I use str(report_timing["INT_MODULE"]) what I get is the very long:0.000441074371338.

Is there a standard way to round this float to 0.0004 or other way to represent to less digits like 440 microseconds, in other words, a standard way to convert time?

Answer 1

you can try some string formatting:

In [1]: strs=0.000441074371338

In [2]: "{0:e}".format(strs)
Out[2]: '4.410744e-04'

In [3]: "{0:.4f}".format(strs)
Out[3]: '0.0004'

In [9]: "{0:.0f} us".format(strs*1000*1000)
Out[9]: '441 us'