On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:46:45 -0500, Rob Williscroft wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > in comp.lang.python: > >>> So the question is: whats going on with timeit.Timer ? >> >> As far as I can see, nothing. I think you have misunderstood the >> results you got. > > No, the answer is that is it repeats a million times. It might better > be called repeat_one_million_times().
But that would be seriously broken if you call it like this: Timer.repeat_one_million_times(5, 1000) It doesn't repeat one million times. It repeats five times, of 1000 loops each. > Or put another way, myself and the OP misinterpreted what the call > t1.repeat( number = 1 ) did. > > its a confusing API. There's certainly confusion happening. Perhaps reading the doc strings might clear up some confusion? help(Timer.repeat) and help(Timer.timeit) state very clearly that they default to one million iterations. > For the OP: > > The call t1.timeit() is equivalent to t1.repeat( number = 1000000 ). No it isn't. Try running the code and looking at the results it gives. t1.repeat(number=10**6) returns a list of three numbers. The function is called *three* million times in total. t1.timeit() returns a single number. In fact, t1.timeit() is equivalent to t1.repeat(repeat=1, number=1000000), (apart from it being in a list). That can be written more simply as: t1.repeat(1) -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
