tutorial on using the time () method in Python

This article mainly introduces the use of the Python time () method of the tutorial, is the basics of Python introductory learning, need friends can refer to the

The time () method returns the number of times in UTC, in seconds.

Note: Although the time is always returned as a floating-point number, not all systems provide more than 1 seconds of precision. Although this function returns a non descending value normally, it is possible to return a lower value during the two calls that the system clock has returned than before.

Grammar

The following is the syntax for the time () method:

Parameters

NA

return value

The time that this method returns, because the times represent floating-point numbers (in UTC) in seconds.

Example

The following example shows the use of the time () method.

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#!/usr/bin/python Import Time print "Time.time ():%f"% time.time () print time.localtime (Time.time ()) Print TIME.ASCT IME (Time.localtime (Time.time ()))

When we run the above program, it produces the following results:

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Time.time (): 1234892919.655932 (2014, 2, 1, 0) Tue Feb 17 10:28:39 2014