Show HN: Ticktock – A Python code metering library (github.com)

I built a Python code metering library to track the execution time of bits of Python code.

You can create clocks anywhere as so:

  from ticktock import tick

  clock = tick()
  # do some work
  clock.tock()

Any encountered clock is registered and its timing measured, aggregated and printed periodically.

The output consists in one line per clock:

  [some_file.py:4-6] 43us count=21
  [lib.py:44-68] 500ms count=5034

(continuously updated as clocks are stepped through more times)

I find this convenient for quick-and-dirty Python profiling, especially for code that runs many times over.

I am happy to take any feedback or issues. There are a couple of known bugs (tqdm progress bars for a start), but it mostly does the job!