primitive built-in debugging w. execution time measurement.

gistfile1.py

import time
import inspect

start_time = time.time()
debuglevel = 2 #e.g: 0=no 1=error 2=info ...

def printdebug(level, message):
	if debuglevel >= level:
		curr_time = time.time() - start_time
		caller = inspect.stack()[1][3]
		print "[%.03fsec] %s: %s" % (curr_time, caller, message)

def somefoo():
	#do some foo...
	printdebug(2, "foo done")
	#do more foo...

somefoo()