[ python-Bugs-1685704 ] Command line interface to timeit.py

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Bugs item #1685704, was opened at 2007-03-22 03:06
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Category: Documentation
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>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Tim Heaney (theaney)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Command line interface to timeit.py

Initial Comment:

In the documentation for timeit.py

  http://docs.python.org/lib/node808.html

it says

  25.9.1 Command Line Interface

  When called as a program from the command line, the following form is used:

  python timeit.py [-n N] [-r N] [-s S] [-t] [-c] [-h] [statement ...]

In fact, for this to work we have to put in the full path to timeit.py. Wouldn't it be better to ask Python to search for it with the -m flag? That is, shouldn't that line be

  python -m timeit [-n N] [-r N] [-s S] [-t] [-c] [-h] [statement ...]

instead?

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>Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl)
Date: 2007-03-22 08:06

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Yes, this is indeed the modern and better thing to do. Fixed in rev.
54524, 54525 (2.5).

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