timeit Questions

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I am trying to run a particular test multiple times in ipython using the %timeit magic function. For demonstration purposes, I will just use -n1 instead of -n3 here, and use a simple print(1) funct...
Chaetognath asked 16/6, 2018 at 19:56

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I am trying to the run the following code but I get a local variable 'a' referenced before assignment. a = [x for x in range(10)] b = [x for x in range(10)] %timeit a+=b The statement works wit...
Genetic asked 15/1, 2018 at 19:47

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I'm new to Python and trying to plot the computational speeds of two functions. For example, having defining two functions (see below), how can I return the time for each iteration using the timeit...
Dissever asked 11/1, 2018 at 11:24

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Suppose I have some function that takes an array and changes every element to be 0. def function(array): for i in range(0,len(array)): array[i] = 0 return array I want to test how long this fu...
Contempt asked 18/9, 2013 at 21:34

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I can't seem to get timeit.timeit to work when I have exceptions in the statement argument passed as string: # after the first and third semicolon, I put 4 spaces timeit.timeit('try:; a=1;except:...
Staten asked 24/4, 2012 at 16:19

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I'm trying to find out how much time it takes to execute a Python statement, so I looked online and found that the standard library provides a module called timeit that purports to do exactly that:...
Prana asked 15/2, 2009 at 23:15

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What is the best way to create a new empty list in Python? l = [] or l = list() I am asking this because of two reasons: Technical reasons, as to which is faster. (creating a class causes ...
Smatter asked 4/6, 2010 at 7:26

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I need to time the execution of a function across variable amounts of data. def foo(raw_data): preprocessed_data = preprocess_data(raw_data) time = timeit.Timer('module.expensive_func(preprocess...
Taishataisho asked 10/9, 2014 at 15:4

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I am new to using the timeit module, and I'm having a hard time getting multi-line code snippets to run inside timeit. What works: timeit.timeit(stmt = "if True: print('hi');") What does not wo...
Parameter asked 9/1, 2017 at 18:13

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I'm running Python 2.7.10 on a 16GB, 2.7GHz i5, OSX 10.11.5 machine. I've observed this phenomenon many times in many different types of examples, so the example below, though a bit contrived, is...
Lalise asked 27/9, 2016 at 18:37

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I want to measure the number of clock cycles it takes to do an addition operation in Python 3. I wrote a program to calculate the average value of the addition operation: from timeit import tim...
Salesmanship asked 31/3, 2016 at 15:59

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Trying to time different random functions to see fastest way to choose random item from list. %timeit wants to give me "best of 3" fastest times, but because the runs are random, there's high varia...
Fingerboard asked 12/2, 2016 at 20:14

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I do not see the rationale why python's timeit module measures the time using the best of 3. Here is an example from my console: ~ python -m timeit 'sum(range(10000))' 10000 loops, best of 3: 119 ...
Barcus asked 28/12, 2015 at 19:46

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Sorting a list of tuples (dictionary keys,values pairs where the key is a random string) is faster when I do not explicitly specify that the key should be used (edit: added operator.itemgetter(0) f...
Fourflush asked 24/12, 2015 at 16:35

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I would like to evaluate the performance of numexpr module in python (2.7). For that purpose, I created a random sparse matrix of size (10^5, 10^5). However, the script below throws an error at the...
Frangipane asked 20/11, 2015 at 10:41

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I don't know how to interpret the output from Python's timeit.timeit() function. My code is as follows: import timeit setup = """ import pydash list_of_objs = [ {}, {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 0: 0}, {'a...
Isherwood asked 17/8, 2015 at 20:3

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In all of the places I read about timeit I found only that I can use variables in this way: s1 = 'abc' s2 = 'abc' timeit.timeit('s1==s2', 'from __main__ import s1, s2', number=10**4) or s...
Thimbleweed asked 22/7, 2015 at 14:17

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I need to measure the time certain parts of my program take (not for debugging but as a feature in the output). Accuracy is important because the total time will be a fraction of a second. I was g...
Jorgensen asked 6/11, 2009 at 3:25

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I'd like to measure the execution speed of the following code: def pe1(): l = [] for i in range(1000): if i%3 == 0 or i%5 == 0: l.append(i) print sum(l) I stored this code under pe1m.py . N...
Yalonda asked 12/4, 2012 at 22:12

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I obtained very surprising results with timeit, can someone tell me if I am doing something wrong ? I am using Python 2.7. This is the contents of file speedtest_init.py: import random to_count ...
Hydrostatics asked 6/1, 2015 at 15:35

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Let me start off by saying I know almost nothing about python but have to write a program in three different languages (already done in java and c++). I need to be able to time the execution of a ...
Photophilous asked 25/9, 2013 at 16:49

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I want to capture and plot the results from 5 or so timeit calls with logarithmically increasing sizes of N to show how methodX() scales with input. So far I have tried: output = %timeit -r 10 re...
Tinsmith asked 26/6, 2013 at 2:48

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Below the performance difference between Slice and manual reverse operation. If this is the case, What is the reason for that? timeit.timeit("a[::-1]","a=[1,2,3,4,5,6]",number=100) 6.0543279687408...
Snowfield asked 12/8, 2014 at 7:29

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I think these 3 are logically equivalent, returning the set {1, 3, 4}: set(sum(((1, 3), (4,), (1,)), ())) set(sum([[1, 3], [4], [1]], [])) functools.reduce(operator.or_, ({1, 3}, {4}, {1}), set())...
Chicoine asked 4/6, 2014 at 17:53

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I was playing around with timeit and noticed that doing a simple list comprehension over a small string took longer than doing the same operation on a list of small single character strings. Any ex...
Distend asked 26/5, 2014 at 1:9

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