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Python2.x Python time time() Method

Description

Python time time() returns the current time as a floating-point number of seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC).

Syntax

Syntax for the time() method:

time.time()

Parameters

Return Value

Returns the current time as a floating-point number of seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC).

Example

The following example demonstrates the usage of the time() function:

#!/usr/bin/python
import time

print "time.time(): %f " % time.time()
print time.localtime( time.time() )
print time.asctime( time.localtime(time.time()) )

The output of the above example is:

time.time(): 1234892919.655932
(2009, 2, 17, 10, 48, 39, 1, 48, 0)
Tue Feb 17 10:48:39 2009

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