# 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')