How do you measure time elapsed in Python?

Question

What I want is to start counting time somewhere in my code and then get the passed time, to measure the time it took to execute few function. I think I'm using the timeit module wrong, but the docs are just confusing for me.
import timeit
start = timeit.timeit()
print "hello"
end = timeit.timeit()
print end - start

Answer 1

import time

 

start_time = time.time()
# your code
elapsed_time = time.time() - start_time