timeit's environment

[Scott David Daniels]

rurpy at yahoo.com wrote:

> Since I've been bitching about documentation in another
> thread, I'm curious...  Would it be obvious to anyone of
> low to intermediate python skills that using global would
> not work in this case?  Would it be obvious that using an
> import is the answer?  Or can I blame this partially on the
> documentation? :-)  I think the scoping issue could have
> at least been mentioned in the Timer class or timeit method
> descriptions.  There is no mention there of exactly what
> environment the code is run in.

Perhaps you could write a paragraph or two that would have
informed you and send it to the destination mentioned on the
documentation page.


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-Scott David Daniels
scott.daniels at acm.org