time how long your code takes to run

timing.py

# BASIC 
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------

# elapsed time
import time
start_time = time.time()
 '''code to execute'''
end_time = time.time()
print('Elapsed time: {:.1f} min'.format((end_time - start_time) / 60))


# print start time
import datetime as dt
from pytz import timezone

TIMEZONE = 'US/Mountain' # change to your timezone
tz = timezone(TIMEZONE)
start_time = dt.datetime.now(tz)
print(f"Started at: {start_time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')} local time")
'''code to execute'''
end_time = dt.datetime.now(tz)
print(f'Elapsed time: {(end_time - start_time) / dt.timedelta(seconds=60):.1f} minutes')



# PROGRESS
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
import sys
import time # only needed for demo

qperc = 0 # placeholder for percent of progress
qincr = 10 # how often (%) to print out progress report
i = 0 # counter variable, for demo
stop = 10 # for demo

while i < stop: # replace with code that indicates task not finished, 
                # ex: not jobs.empty():
    sys.stdout.write('.')
    sys.stdout.flush()
    # qcurr is some measure of progress, e.g.:
        # qcurr = 100 * (len(data) - jobs.qsize()) / len(data)
        # for this demo, we just set equal to our counter / stop
    qcurr = 100 * (i / stop)
    # print out progress every qincr
    if qcurr - qincr >= qperc: 
        qperc = qcurr
        sys.stdout.write('%u%%' % qperc)
        sys.stdout.flush()
    
    time.sleep(1) # for demo
    i += 1 # for demo