Rémi Lapeyre <remi.lape...@henki.fr> added the comment: Is this different than what you would expect?
Supplying garbage to timeit will result in an error: >>> from timeit import timeit >>> timeit('weofinwofinwe') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/timeit.py", line 232, in timeit return Timer(stmt, setup, timer, globals).timeit(number) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/timeit.py", line 176, in timeit timing = self.inner(it, self.timer) File "<timeit-src>", line 6, in inner NameError: name 'weofinwofinwe' is not defined If you want to time an empty loop, you can use: >>> timeit('pass', number=10000) 0.0001043230000021822 ---------- nosy: +remi.lapeyre _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue40670> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com