How to use timeit module

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If you want to use timeit in an interactive Python session, there are two convenient options:

  1. Use the IPython shell. It features the convenient %timeit special function:

    In [1]: def f(x):
   ...:     return x*x
   ...: 

In [2]: %timeit for x in range(100): f(x)
100000 loops, best of 3: 20.3 us per loop

  2. In a standard Python interpreter, you can access functions and other names you defined earlier during the interactive session by importing them from __main__ in the setup statement:

    >>> def f(x):
...     return x * x 
... 
>>> import timeit
>>> timeit.repeat("for x in range(100): f(x)", "from __main__ import f",
                  number=100000)
[2.0640320777893066, 2.0876040458679199, 2.0520210266113281]

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