Timer context manager doesn't add ".total"

[pwilczynskiclearcode]

https://github.com/WoLpH/python-statsd/blob/master/statsd/timer.py
Is there any purpose on and logic behind why Timer.time context manager does not add .total. into the metric name but Timer.stop() call adds it by default? It seems inconsistent.

[wolph]

There is some logic to it, when using the decorator you can't support intermediate times/results. With the normal start/stop you can do that.

For example:

timer = statsd.Timer('your_function')
timer.start()
# do something here
timer.intermediate('part 1')
# do some more
timer.intermediate('part 2')
# and the finishing bit
timer.stop()

It's just a slightly different pattern to work with.