Timer name in printed message

[Mischa Lisovyi]

It would be good to be able to have the timer name in the printed message. Either by default or have some special parameter or special formatting parameter. At the moment printouts from multiple timers can be confusing.

codetiming==1.1.0 from pypi

[Geir Arne Hjelle]

@mlisovyi Thanks for the suggestion.

This sounds like a good idea. We just need to be a bit careful, so we don't break backwards compatibility, since currently the formatting of text expects only one parameter.

I think it should be quite doable though, by implementing a FormattedTimer that by default formats like the usual float, but that we can attach custom properties to.

I'll have a look at implementing this in the coming days.

[Geir Arne Hjelle]

By the way, a somewhat cumbersome workaround is to add the name manually to text when initializing the timer:

t = Timer(name=name, text=f"{name} finished in {{:.2f}} seconds")

[Geir Arne Hjelle]

@mlisovyi Thanks again for the suggestion.

I've just published v1.2.0 with support for attributes. With this latest version, you will be able to do things like:

from codetiming import Timer

with Timer(name="NamedTimer", text="{name}: {seconds:.2f} seconds"):
    ...

Currently, the attributes name, milliseconds, seconds, and minutes are made available.

[Mischa Lisovyi]

Awesome thanks!

The proposed workarount in the previous version has a downside, that i have to add text string explicitly into the timer. in my used case, i had several timers in the script to track performance of different code blocks. And what i wanted to do is

timer_arg = {'logger': log.info, 'text': 'Some formatted string'}
...
with Timer('Timer_1', **timer_args):
    ...
with Timer('Timer_2', **timer_args):
    ...

This way i do not need to adjust the text string in multiple places. So I'm very happy to try out the new released version

[Mischa Lisovyi]

The nw release works like a charm! Thanks for prompt update.

[Geir Arne Hjelle]

Great! Happy to hear that 🎉

Thanks for checking back in with the feedback! 😄