Re: Timing a function object versus timeit

2006-11-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:02:37 -0800, Carl Banks wrote: import timeit timeit.Timer("foo(1)","from __main__ import foo") > 1.1497418880462646 Well, that was scarily simple. Thank you. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Timing a function object versus timeit

2006-11-03 Thread Carl Banks
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > The timeit module is ideal for measuring small code snippets; I want to > measure large function objects. > > Because the timeit module takes the code snippet argument as a string, it > is quite handy to use from the command line, but it is less convenient for > timing lar

Timing a function object versus timeit

2006-11-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
The timeit module is ideal for measuring small code snippets; I want to measure large function objects. Because the timeit module takes the code snippet argument as a string, it is quite handy to use from the command line, but it is less convenient for timing large pieces of code or when working i