# spacepy.toolbox.eventTimer

spacepy.toolbox.eventTimer(Event, Time1)

  Times an event then prints out the time and the name of the event, nice for debugging and seeing that the code is progressing

  Parameters
    Event str

      Name of the event, string is printed out by function

    Time1 time.time

      the time to difference in the function

  Returns
    Time2 time.time

      the new time for the next call to EventTimer

  Examples

      >>> import spacepy.toolbox as tb
      >>> import time
      >>> t1 = time.time()
      >>> t1 = tb.eventTimer('Test event finished', t1)
      ('4.40', 'Test event finished')