timeit — Easy Playground

Measure execution time of small code snippets

Python Playground

import timeit

# Time a simple expression
t1 = timeit.timeit("sum(range(100))", number=10000)
t2 = timeit.timeit("[x**2 for x in range(100)]", number=10000)
print(f"sum(range(100)): {t1:.4f}s")
print(f"List comp: {t2:.4f}s")

Output

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The timeit module is part of Python's standard library. Measure execution time of small code snippets.

Challenge

Try modifying the code above to explore different behaviors. Can you extend the example to handle a new use case?

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