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Here’s a sample I wrote and find very useful for quick performance tests of python functions.

import timing
from datetime import datetime
def timeit(fn):
    def wrapper(*args, *kw):
        timing.start()
        fn(*args, **kw)
        timing.finish()
        f = open("timing.csv", "a")
        f.write("%s,%s,%dn"%(datetime.now(), fn.__name__, timing.micro()))
        f.flush()
        f.close()
    return wrapper

You can then import it to OpenOffice Calculator or MS Excel and do some fancy charts or whatever
Note that this function is using disk I/O so by itself it is also causing some overhead (especially for functions called multiple times per second).
Obviously it’s not thread safe.