Getting “global name ‘foo’ is not defined” with Python’s timeit

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Change this line:

t = timeit.Timer("foo()")

To this:

t = timeit.Timer("foo()", "from __main__ import foo")

Check out the link you provided at the very bottom.

To give the timeit module access to functions you define, you can pass a setup parameter which contains an import statement:

I just tested it on my machine and it worked with the changes.

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