I have just created a module [tictoc.py] for achieving nested tic tocs, which is what Matlab does.
from time import time
tics = []
def tic():
tics.append(time())
def toc():
if len(tics)==0:
return None
else:
return time()-tics.pop()
And it works this way:
from tictoc import tic, toc
# This keeps track of the whole process
tic()
# Timing a small portion of code (maybe a loop)
tic()
# -- Nested code here --
# End
toc() # This returns the elapse time (in seconds) since the last invocation of tic()
toc() # This does the same for the first tic()
I hope it helps.