"Duncan Booth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Window's command processor doesn't recognise single quote marks as
> meaning anything special, so your command is passing 4 separate arguments
> to timeit.py instead of the 1 argument that a unix shell would be passing.
>
3c273 wrote:
> I was reading the thread on try/except overhead and decided to try
> Alex's examples but they kept generating exceptions. So I went to the
> docs and tried the examples there (copied and pasted) with the same
> results (Win2k, Python 2.4). Any help is appreciated. The output
> follo
