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diff --git a/Lib/timeit.py b/Lib/timeit.py index 2c0c146..fd177cd 100644 --- a/Lib/timeit.py +++ b/Lib/timeit.py @@ -1,25 +1,44 @@ -"""Framework for timing execution speed of small code snippets. +"""Framework for measuring execution time for small code snippets. -This avoids a number of common traps for timing frameworks (see also -Tim Peters' introduction to the timing chapter in the Python -Cookbook). +This module avoids a number of common traps for measuring execution +times. See also Tim Peters' introduction to the Algorithms chapter in +the Python Cookbook, published by O'Reilly. -(To use this with older versions of Python, the dependency on the -itertools module is easily removed; instead of itertools.repeat(None, -count) you can use [None]*count; this is barely slower.) +Library usage: see the Timer class. Command line usage: - python timeit.py [-n N] [-r N] [-s S] [-t] [-c] [statement] + python timeit.py [-n N] [-r N] [-s S] [-t] [-c] [statement] Options: - -n/--number N: how many times to execute 'statement' (default varies) + -n/--number N: how many times to execute 'statement' (default: see below) -r/--repeat N: how many times to repeat the timer (default 1) -s/--setup S: statements executed once before 'statement' (default 'pass') -t/--time: use time.time() (default on Unix) -c/--clock: use time.clock() (default on Windows) statement: statement to be timed (default 'pass') + +A multi-line statement may be given by specifying each line as a +separate argument; indented lines are possible by enclosing an +argument in quotes and using leading spaces. + +If -n is not given, a suitable number of loops is calculated by trying +successive powers of 10 until the total time is at least 0.2 seconds. + +The difference in default timer function is because on Windows, +clock() has microsecond granularity but time()'s granularity is 1/60th +of a second; on Unix, clock() has 1/100th of a second granularity and +time() is much more precise. On either platform, the default timer +functions measures wall clock time, not the CPU time. This means that +other processes running on the same computer may interfere with the +timing. The best thing to do when accurate timing is necessary is to +repeat the timing a few times and use the best time; the -r option is +good for this. On Unix, you can use clock() to measure CPU time. """ +# To use this module with older versions of Python, the dependency on +# the itertools module is easily removed; in the template, instead of +# itertools.repeat(None, count), use [None]*count. It's barely slower. + import sys import math import time @@ -37,6 +56,9 @@ else: # On most other platforms the best timer is time.time() default_timer = time.time +# Don't change the indentation of the template; the reindent() calls +# in Timer.__init__() depend on setup being indented 4 spaces and stmt +# being indented 8 spaces. template = """ def inner(number, timer): %(setup)s @@ -49,11 +71,27 @@ def inner(number, timer): """ def reindent(src, indent): + """Helper to reindent a multi-line statement.""" return ("\n" + " "*indent).join(src.split("\n")) class Timer: + """Class for timing execution speed of small code snippets. + + The constructor takes a statement to be timed, an additional + statement used for setup, and a timer function. Both statements + default to 'pass'; the timer function is platform-dependent (see + module doc string). + + To measure the execution time of the first statement, use the + timeit() method. The repeat() method is a convenience to call + timeit() multiple times and return a list of results. + + The statements may contain newlines, as long as they don't contain + multi-line string literals. + """ def __init__(self, stmt="pass", setup="pass", timer=default_timer): + """Constructor. See class doc string.""" self.timer = timer stmt = reindent(stmt, 8) setup = reindent(setup, 4) @@ -64,9 +102,26 @@ class Timer: self.inner = ns["inner"] def timeit(self, number=default_number): + """Time 'number' executions of the main statement. + + To be precise, this executes the setup statement once, and + then returns the time it takes to execute the main statement + a number of times, as a float measured in seconds. The + argument is the number of times through the loop, defaulting + to one million. The main statement, the setup statement and + the timer function to be used are passed to the constructor. + """ return self.inner(number, self.timer) def repeat(self, repeat=default_repeat, number=default_number): + """Call timer() a few times. + + This is a convenience function that calls the timer() + repeatedly, returning a list of results. The first argument + specifies how many times to call timer(), defaulting to 10; + the second argument specifies the timer argument, defaulting + to one million. + """ r = [] for i in range(repeat): t = self.timeit(number) @@ -74,6 +129,14 @@ class Timer: return r def main(args=None): + """Main program, used when run as a script. + + The optional argument specifies the command line to be parsed, + defaulting to sys.argv[1:]. + + The return value is an exit code to be passed to sys.exit(); it + may be None to indicate success. + """ if args is None: args = sys.argv[1:] import getopt @@ -118,6 +181,7 @@ def main(args=None): print "best of %d: %.3f usec" % (repeat, usec) else: print "time: %.3f usec" % usec + return None if __name__ == "__main__": sys.exit(main()) |