Thank you , this answers my question : ) On Apr 22, 2015 6:39 PM, "Michael Torrie" <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 04/21/2015 09:31 PM, Ganesh Pal wrote: > > Iam not able to understand what why only 10 loops were run ? what > > does this mean and how does this work ? > > I have a hunch you're mistakenly thinking that Python is only running > through ten iterations of your for i in range(1000000) loop. This is > not the case. The entire thing is running (all 1000000 iterations of > your loop), but is run ten times, as that is the default for timeit > unless you specify that you want to run it more times. Hope this helps. > > Basically timeit is doing something like this: > > def mycode(): > for i in range(1000000): > pass > > for x in range(10): > mycode() > > And then collecting timing statistics on the ten passes. > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
-- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
