Can this library be used in production code, does it save all the timing values.

[vik748]

I am wondering if the Time class stores all the timing values it receives. I was intrigued since median computation would require something like that. If it does store it, does that mean the data structure grows unbounded?

[mvanholsteijn]

TLDR; unless you explicitly call timer.timers.clear() it will grow unbounded.

https://github.com/realpython/codetiming/blob/main/codetiming/_timers.py#L24-L33

The Timers class is a class attribute of the Timer. It keeps a record of all starts and stops. So you need to clear it yourself every now and them.

[dogganon]

The Timers class is a class attribute of the Timer

It truly should not. It makes more sense for the global Timers to be a default; users should be allowed to pass their own Timers while instantiating the Timer instance.

Ideally Timers should be a factory such that all Timer objects created under it are bound by the factory's lifecycle. So in terms of object relationship, the API has it backwards.

@mvanholsteijn