Python: Essential Reference, Third Edition

timeit

The timeit module is used to time simple Python code.

						Timer ([statement
						[,
						setup
						[,
						timer]]])

Creates a Timer object. statement is a string containing a Python statement to be timed. setup is an optional string containing a Python statement that is executed prior to the timing of statement. timer is a platform-specific timing function such as time.time() or time.clock() in the time module. Normally, this does not need to be supplied.

An instance, t, of Timer has the following methods:

						t.print_exc([file])

Prints execution information for exceptions that occur in timed code. To use this, enclose the timeit() method in a try block and use print_exc in an except clause.

						t.repeat([repeat
						[,
						number]))

Executes the timeit() method multiple ...