# Measuring execution time

**URL:** https://discuss.pennylane.ai/t/measuring-execution-time/196
**Category:** PennyLane Help
**Created:** [August 17, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.pennylane.ai/t/measuring-execution-time/196 "2019-08-17T17:04:38Z")
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### Author: ![cmaps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@cmaps](https://discuss.pennylane.ai/u/cmaps)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.pennylane.ai/t/measuring-execution-time/196/1 "2019-08-17T17:04:38Z")

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Hi,

Is there a way to measure the execution time in PennyLane scripts?

e.g. qiskit command: job.result().time\_taken

Kind regards!

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### Author: ![johannesjmeyer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex012/user_avatar/discuss.pennylane.ai/johannesjmeyer/32/115_2.png) [@johannesjmeyer](https://discuss.pennylane.ai/u/johannesjmeyer)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.pennylane.ai/t/measuring-execution-time/196/2 "2019-08-18T09:24:18Z")

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Hello @cmaps,

there is currently no such option available in PennyLane.

Python still offers a relatively easy way to implement timing, you can do it with the following approach:

```python
import time

start = time.time()
print("Here is your code")
end = time.time()
print(end - start) # time elapsed in seconds

```

See also [this discussion on StackOverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7370801/measure-time-elapsed-in-python).