3c273 wrote: > I was reading the thread on try/except overhead and decided to try > Alex's examples but they kept generating exceptions. So I went to the > docs and tried the examples there (copied and pasted) with the same > results (Win2k, Python 2.4). Any help is appreciated. The output > follows: #1 > C:\Python24\Lib>timeit.py 'if hasattr(int, "__nonzero__"): pass' > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "C:\Python24\Lib\timeit.py", line 285, in ? > sys.exit(main()) > File "C:\Python24\Lib\timeit.py", line 249, in main > t = Timer(stmt, setup, timer) > File "C:\Python24\Lib\timeit.py", line 116, in __init__ > code = compile(src, dummy_src_name, "exec") > File "<timeit-src>", line 6 > 'if > ^ > SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string
Window's command processor doesn't recognise single quote marks as meaning anything special, so your command is passing 4 separate arguments to timeit.py instead of the 1 argument that a unix shell would be passing. Try using double quotes around everything instead: timeit.py "if hasattr(int, '__nonzero__'): pass" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
