new_contents: from timeit import default_timer
  
  
  class Timer(object):
      def __init__(self, task='action', verbose=True):
          self.task = task
          self.verbose = verbose
          self.timer = default_timer
      def __enter__(self):
          self.start = self.timer()
          return self
      def __exit__(self, *args):
          end = self.timer()
          self.elapsed_secs = end - self.start
          self.elapsed = self.elapsed_secs * 1000 # millisecs
          if self.verbose:
              print '%s took:\t% 7d ms' % (self.task, self.elapsed)
  
subject: add general_utils, currently just has Timer