Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Here is a patch that emits a warning using the warnings module. The warning is output to stderr and can be suppressed with the -Wignore option, as all other warnings.
$ ./python -m timeit -n1 -r 10 -s "import time, random" -- "time.sleep(random.random())" 1 loops, best of 10: 79.6 msec per loop :0: UserWarning: These test results likely aren't reliable. The worst time was more than four times slower than the best time. $ ./python -Wignore -m timeit -n1 -r 10 -s "import time, random" -- "time.sleep(random.random())" 1 loops, best of 10: 16.2 msec per loop ---------- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file38532/timeit_python_warning.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23552> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com