Method timeit

Lib/timeit.py:163–181

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 float seconds if using the default timer. The argument is the number of tim

(self, number=default_number)

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    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 float seconds if using the default timer.   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.
        """
        it = itertools.repeat(None, number)
        gcold = gc.isenabled()
        gc.disable()
        try:
            timing = self.inner(it, self.timer)
        finally:
            if gcold:
                gc.enable()
        return timing

    def repeat(self, repeat=default_repeat, number=default_number):
        """Call timeit() a few times.