[issue15979] Improve timeit documentation

2012-10-01 Thread Ezio Melotti

Changes by Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com:


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[issue15979] Improve timeit documentation

2012-10-01 Thread Chris Jerdonek

Chris Jerdonek added the comment:

I copy-edited the patch just looking for minor things like punctuation, etc:

+a :ref:`command-line-interface` as well as :ref:`callable python-interface`

a callable one

+See also Tim Peters' introduction to the Algorithms chapter in the Python
+Cookbook, published by O'Reilly.

italicize or underline book titles (is there a reST directive for books?)

+The following example shows how the :ref:`command-line-interface`,

no comma

+Python interface

Python Interface

+   Create a :class:`Timer` instance with the given statement, setup code and 
timer
+   function and run its :meth:`.timeit` method with *number* executions.

stars around setup and timer like there is with *number*?

+   Create a :class:`Timer` instance with the given statement, setup code and 
timer
+   function and run its :meth:`.repeat` method with the given *repeat* count 
and

ditto

+   Define a default timer, in a platform specific manner. On Windows,

platform-specific

+   :func:`time.clock` has microsecond granularity but :func:`time.time`'s

granularity, but

+   granularity is 1/60th of a second; on Unix, :func:`time.clock` has 1/100th 
of

I would just split this into two sentences since it already combines two 
compound sentences (i.e. it is effectively four sentences):

second.  On Unix,

+   a second granularity and :func:`time.time` is much more precise.  On either

granularity, and

+   Time *number* executions of the main statement. This executes the setup

statement.  This

+   statement once, and then returns the time it takes to execute the main 
statement
+   a number of times, measured in seconds as a float.  The argument is the 
number

*number* times

+   baseline overhead can be measured by invoking the program without arguments 
and

arguments, and

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[issue15979] Improve timeit documentation

2012-10-01 Thread Roundup Robot

Roundup Robot added the comment:

New changeset 60c831305e73 by Ezio Melotti in branch '2.7':
#15979: improve timeit documentation.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/60c831305e73

New changeset d5a4300702c1 by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.2':
#15979: improve timeit documentation.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d5a4300702c1

New changeset ff32d390f897 by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.3':
#15979: merge with 3.2.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ff32d390f897

New changeset 85b6c1c19cb8 by Ezio Melotti in branch 'default':
#15979: merge with 3.3.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/85b6c1c19cb8

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[issue15979] Improve timeit documentation

2012-10-01 Thread Ezio Melotti

Ezio Melotti added the comment:

Fixed, thanks for the review!

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[issue15979] Improve timeit documentation

2012-09-24 Thread Ezio Melotti

Ezio Melotti added the comment:

Here's a patch.

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[issue15979] Improve timeit documentation

2012-09-24 Thread Antoine Pitrou

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

I don't think there's a need for two separate examples sections (one basic 
examples and one examples).

Also, you say a couple of times The equivalent can be achieved from the 
:ref:`python-interface`, but that's not true since the command-line interface 
auto-calibrates, which the Python API (unfortunately) doesn't.
Besides, the results use different units and can't be directly compared.

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[issue15979] Improve timeit documentation

2012-09-24 Thread Ezio Melotti

Ezio Melotti added the comment:

The first example shows the basic usage and it's right at the beginning, all 
the other advanced examples are at the bottom.

About the autocalibration you are right, I'll rephrase the sentence (see also 
#6422).

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[issue15979] Improve timeit documentation

2012-09-20 Thread Ezio Melotti

Ezio Melotti added the comment:

The sh syntax highlight can be enabled with:

.. code-block:: sh

   $ ...

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[issue15979] Improve timeit documentation

2012-09-19 Thread Ezio Melotti

New submission from Ezio Melotti:

The documentation of timeit can be improved in several ways:
 * it should start with a couple of short and comprehensible examples that show 
the basic usage from the command-line and from the code;
 * the 3 convenience functions should be moved before the class documentation 
(and their order inverted);
 * the methods in the class should be reordered to show the important one first;
 * more comprehensive (but still comprehensible) examples should be added at 
the end;
 * sh syntax highlight should be used for the command-line usage examples;
 * the note about Python 2.3 can be removed from 3.x docs;

http://docs.python.org/dev/library/timeit.html

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[issue15979] Improve timeit documentation

2012-09-19 Thread Raymond Hettinger

Raymond Hettinger added the comment:

+1

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