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Using Python Contextmanager To Create A Timer Decorator#

This stackoverflow post has already given an example on how to use contextmanager to create a timer decorator:

from contextlib import contextmanager
from timeit import default_timer

@contextmanager
def elapsed_timer():
    start = default_timer()
    elapser = lambda: default_timer() - start
    yield lambda: elapser()
    end = default_timer()
    elapser = lambda: end-start

It works well, but flake8 linter warns me that: [E731]: do not assign a lambda expression, use a def.

So hereunder the lambda free version:

from contextlib import contextmanager
from timeit import default_timer

@contextmanager
def elapsed_timer():
    start_time = default_timer()

    class _Timer():
      start = start_time
      end = default_timer()
      duration = end - start

    yield _Timer

    end_time = default_timer()
    _Timer.end = end_time
    _Timer.duration = end_time - start_time

Test:

In [67]: from time import sleep
    ...:
    ...: def sleep_1s():
    ...:     sleep(1)
    ...:
    ...: with elapsed_timer() as t:
    ...:     sleep_1s()
    ...:

In [68]: t.start
Out[68]: 4583.4985535

In [69]: t.end
Out[69]: 4584.4983676

In [70]: t.duration
Out[70]: 0.9998141000005489

# the duration is less than 1s, it's default_timer of timeit.

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