#!/usr/bin/python __author__ = "bt3" ''' a simple example of how to time a function ''' import time def sumOfN2(n): start = time.time() theSum = 0 for i in range(1,n+1): theSum = theSum + i end = time.time() return theSum,end-start if __name__ == '__main__': n = 5 print("Sum is %d and required %10.7f seconds"%sumOfN2(n)) n = 200 print("Sum is %d and required %10.7f seconds"%sumOfN2(n))