Ganesh Pal <ganesh1...@gmail.com> writes: > Iam running the below command on Linux machine have Python 2.7 > installed ,
If it hasn't already been said: You should be targeting Python 3 wherever possible (with the ‘python3’ command). Since you're not in this case – and you are specifically testing Python 2 features – you should get used to invoking Python 2 specifically, with the ‘python2’ command. > I was trying to figure out the speed difference between xrange and > range functions. This is the right way to do it. Thank you for actually measuring specific performance! > 10 loops, best of 3: 51.1 msec per loop > > Iam not able to understand what why only 10 loops were run ? What behaviour did you expect? You didn't ask for any particular number of iterations, so you've allowed the tool to choose for you <URL:https://docs.python.org/3/library/timeit.html#cmdoption-timeit-n>. The documentation for the ‘timeit’ module specifies what happens when you omit the “number of iterations” parameter: If -n is not given, a suitable number of loops is calculated by trying successive powers of 10 until the total time is at least 0.2 seconds. > what does this mean and how does this work ? I don't know what such a vague question means. Can you read the documentation and ask some more specific question? -- \ “Oh, I love your magazine. My favorite section is ‘How To | `\ Increase Your Word Power’. That thing is really, really, | _o__) really... good.” —Homer, _The Simpsons_ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
