Python | os.times() method

OS module in Python provides functions for interacting with the operating system. OS comes under Python’s standard utility modules. This module provides a portable way of using operating system dependent functionality.

os.times() method in Python is used to get the current global process times.

Syntax: os.times()

Parameter: No parameter is required.

Return Type: This method returns a tuple-like object with five named attributes which represents the current global process times. The five attributes are as follows:

• user: It represents the user time.
• system: It represents the system time
• children_user: It represents the user time of all child processes.
• children_system: It represents the system time of all child processes.
• elapsed: It represents the elapsed real time since a fixed point in the past.

Note: On Windows, only user and system attributes are known and other attributes have value 0.

Code: Use of os.times() method to get the current global process times.

# Python program to explain os.times() method

# importing os module
import os

# Get the current global
# process times
# using os.times() method
curr_gp_times = os.times()

# Print the current global
# process times
print(curr_gp_times)

Output:

posix.times_result(user=0.03, system=0.01, children_user=0.0, children_system=0.0, elapsed=17370844.95)

Reference: https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html