import atexit from time import clock def secondsToStr(t): return "%d:%02d:%02d.%03d" % \ reduce(lambda ll,b : divmod(ll[0],b) + ll[1:], [(t*1000,),1000,60,60]) line = "="*40 def log(s, elapsed=None): print line print secondsToStr(clock()), '-', s if elapsed: print "Elapsed time:", elapsed print line print def endlog(): end = clock() elapsed = end-start log("End Program", secondsToStr(elapsed)) def now(): return secondsToStr(clock()) start = clock() atexit.register(endlog) log("Start Program")