How to use the time () method in Python

How to use the time () method in Python

This article describes how to use the time () method in Python. It is the basic knowledge of getting started with Python. For more information, see

The return time of the time () method, expressed in seconds in UTC time.

Note: although it is always returned as a floating point number in time, not all systems provide a precision of over 1 second. Although this function normally returns a non-decreasing value, it can return a lower value than the previous call when the system clock has returned two calls.

Syntax

The syntax of the time () method is as follows:

Parameters

NA

Return Value

The time returned by this method, because the time in seconds represents a floating point (in UTC ).

Example

The following example shows how to use 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. asctime (time. localtime (time. time ()))

When we run the above program, it will produce the following results:

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Time. time (): 1234892919.655932 (2014, 2, 17, 10, 28, 39, 1, 48, 0) Tue Feb 17 10:28:39 2014