On 1 velj, 17:42, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: > vedrandeko...@yahoo.com wrote: > > Hello, > > > When I run following code with os.popen (for this time measure I'm > > using python module timeit): > > > for i in range(50): > > print i > > > I get this result: 0.00246958761519 > > > But when I run same code from IDLE i get this result: > > 6.4533341528e-005 > > > now, I have two questions: > > 1) Which of this results is correct? > > Both are. What makes you think that printing in IDLE (to a GUI) should > take the same amount of time as it does "running with os.popen (whatever > that means). The two environments are likely to be completely different, > but you haven't show the exact code you ran so it's hard to be more exact. > > > 2) Are this results in micro seconds? > > No, seconds, as it says in the documentation: > > """This executes the setup statement once, and then returns the time it > takes to execute the main statement a number of times, measured in > seconds as a float""". > > Even a modern computer doesn't do much in .0024 microseconds. > > regards > Steve > -- > Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 > Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/
Hello again, This is the code that I ran: a) Main code: This code is in .exe: t = Timer("import os;os.popen('python myscript.py arg1 2 3')") print t.timeit() b) myscript.py code: import sys print sys.argv[1] var1=int(sys.argv[2]) var2=int(sys.argv[3]) var3=var1+var2 Regards, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list