Get time of execution of a block of code in Python 2.7

To get the elapsed time in seconds, you can use timeit.default_timer():

import timeit
start_time = timeit.default_timer()
# code you want to evaluate
elapsed = timeit.default_timer() - start_time

timeit.default_timer() is used instead of time.time() or time.clock() because it will choose the timing function that has the higher resolution for any platform.