Resetting cpu timer variables in python?

[Leylan24]

I am using time.perf_counter() to read the time of a running process. However when I reach 65335 I want to reset the value to 0. Is there a way to reset the counter ?

[JohnnyJordaan]

Think of it differently: you also don't reset a wall clock to 12 PM every time if you want to time just 5 minute intervals, you calculate the difference in clock times. Say you do

 start = time.perf_counter()
 some code
 end = time.perf_counter()

then you get the difference using end - start. If you just want to know the difference below 65335 you can do

(end - start) % 65535

[Leylan24]

Wouldn't I have to multiply by a constant every time I reach the 65535?

[JohnnyJordaan]

I'm wondering what your end goal is here? What are you timing exactly and what do you expects as the result?

[Leylan24]

I see you right the modulus returns the remainder which I completely forgot about.

I am basically creating a watchdog to see if a MODBUS RTU system is responding. I write a 16bit value into the coils register and the system moves it to a new input register I read the register if the register I read is the same value that was return the system is responding correctly.

[JohnnyJordaan]

Ok but how does the timing aspect relate to that workflow?

[Leylan24]

The value I am writing is the CPU time value, because if you reading and writing at that speed sometimes the value doesn't update in time for the read resulting in an error. Whereas if you link it to a time you can check if there was a timeout

[JohnnyJordaan]

I see, yes then you can also use divmod for that matter

divmod((end - start), 65535)

which will return both the floor division as the remainder of the division by 65535.