If you need only HTTP ping, you can use the excellent Python library, requests
import requests, json
def call_some_api (params) :
""" You can track time of any your API call. """
result = requests.get("rest-api-endpoint.com")
# Now result contains all request data you need
print "Call time:", result.elapsed # .. prints timedelta ..
json_result = json.load( result.text ) # Here are RESTful API, JSON response
return json_result
For more information you can see requests docs
If you looking for timing some action in general, you can use this simple decorators
For current python, use print(f'Call time: {result.elapsed}')
Optionally, use result.elapsed.total_seconds()
See How to measure server response time for Python requests POST-request