[Python-checkins] bpo-35138: Added an example for timeit.timeit with callable arguments (GH-9787)

Mon May 13 15:27:24 EDT 2019

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8da5ebe11e0cb6599af682b22f7c2b2b7b9debd8
commit: 8da5ebe11e0cb6599af682b22f7c2b2b7b9debd8
branch: master
author: Anders Hovmöller <boxed at killingar.net>
committer: Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com>
date: 2019年05月13日T21:27:17+02:00
summary:
bpo-35138: Added an example for timeit.timeit with callable arguments (GH-9787)
* Update timeit.rst
files:
M Doc/library/timeit.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/timeit.rst b/Doc/library/timeit.rst
index 8ca37034f79b..ef7a4e40be65 100644
--- a/Doc/library/timeit.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/timeit.rst
@@ -44,8 +44,12 @@ This can be achieved from the :ref:`python-interface` with::
 >>> timeit.timeit('"-".join(map(str, range(100)))', number=10000)
 0.23702679807320237
 
+A callable can also be passed from the :ref:`python-interface`::
 
-Note however that :mod:`timeit` will automatically determine the number of
+ >>> timeit.timeit(lambda: "-".join(map(str, range(100))), number=10000)
+ 0.19665591977536678
+
+Note however that :func:`.timeit` will automatically determine the number of
 repetitions only when the command-line interface is used. In the
 :ref:`timeit-examples` section you can find more advanced examples.
 
