Cannot install timeit with pip. How can I fix this?

Question

I'm trying to install timeit but this is what I get:

$ sudo pip install timeit

Downloading/unpacking timeit
  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement timeit
No distributions at all found for timeit
Storing complete log in /Users/username/.pip/pip.log

Repairer

timeit is included in Python since 2.3. You shouldn't need to install it – Avellaneda

Answer 1

timeit is part of the Python standard library since 2.3. There should be no need to install it via pip.

Heathenize

Answer 2

That's because timeit is a built in Python module. You don't need to use pip for that.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/timeit.html

Here's a list of modules included with Python. As long as you have Python installed, you should have these: https://docs.python.org/2/library/

Bentz

Answer 3

You don't need to install it separately. timeit is available in python itself. It is available in both 2nd and 3rd versions of python. you can find timeit documentation here

Constant