How to record time taken by my program

If you want to calculate or record time taken by your steps in your programs, you can use the following code snippet 

import time
start_time = time.time()

# Your program goes here
action()

time_taken = time.time() - start_time
print("Total time taken for the program execution", time_taken) # seconds

Total time taken for the program execution 10.005947589874268