[RFC] a time interval class?

[Marius Kruger]

On 8/15/07, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:

> Adding a second timer might be useful, but I think an easier thing to do
> for the logging case is to just show the time since the last printout,
> which is perhaps what you mean your code does.
>
> As we have an object we can set state, so how about:
> if debugging:
>     duration = Duration()
>     duration.start()
>     duration.show_since_last_print(True)
> ...
> if debugging:
>     mutter("... %s", ..., duration)
> ...
> if debugging:
>     mutter("... %s", ...., duration)
>
> where this would output strings like "4m2secs total, 25secs incremental"
>

yip, this is more or less what I was after  (acturally just more :)

maybe
-    duration = Duration()
-    duration.start()
-    duration.show_since_last_print(True)

+   duration = Duration(start=True, show_since_last_print=True)

regards
marius
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