Passing function objects to timeit

[Peter Otten]

George Sakkis wrote:

> On Mar 30, 9:03 am, Peter Otten <__pete... at web.de> wrote:
>> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> > On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:27:18 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>>
>> >> Second try:
>> > ...
>> >> Horrible, I know. Those wrapper1,wrapper2,wrapper3... keep growing
>> >> with each call. But it's the only way I could find, at least without
>> >> changing the code template used by timeit.
>>
>> > Eeek. Talk about namespace pollution.
>>
>> > Thanks for the effort, but if that's the only solution, I think the
>> > solution is worse than the problem!
>>
>> > Perhaps it's time for me to take a different approach.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Maybe the following enhancement of timeit would be worthwhile?
> 
> [snip]
> 
> 
> That would be great. I sometimes avoid timeit altogether because
> setting up the environment is so cumbersome. Can you post the patch to
> bugs.python.org so it doesn't get lost ?

Looking into

http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/timeit.py?rev=54953&view=markup

I discovered that the Python developers took a different approach and timeit
now allows callables for setup and statement:

>>> def f(): print 42
...
>>> timeit.Timer(f).repeat(1, 1)
42
[3.3855438232421875e-05]

So my patch is probably a case of instant obsolescence...

Peter