-----Original Message----- >From: Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Aug 24, 2007 4:30 PM >To: Python Tutor List <tutor@python.org> >Subject: Re: [Tutor] A fun puzzle > >Dick Moores wrote: >>At 10:22 AM 8/24/2007, Kent Johnson wrote: >>>So you actually pasted that code into timeit.py? >>Yeah. :-( I think I learned on the Tutor list to do it that way, but >>I'm not sure. Thanks for showing me a correct way. > >I hope not! > >>>Using timeit more conventionally I get unsurprising results. This >>>program has output: >>>0.497083902359 >>>0.359513998032 >>> >>>which is more in line with what I would expect. >>Using your exact code, I just got >>0.737564690484 >>1.17399585702 >>Which is the reverse of your result, but on a slower computer. >>What's up with that?? > > >Kent, > >That result was gotten using Ulipad. Thought I'd try it at my command >line (several times, of course--I've reported what seemed to be >representative data). > >Using command line: >0.673447044247 >0.511676204657 > >Using IDLE: >0.845213567646 >0.685519807685 > >Using Wing Pro (executing with Alt+F5) >0.940486290855 >0.998467123615 > >Is it possible that the timeit module should be used only at the command line? > >Dick
The IDLE numbers match those on my machine to within 0.001. For what it is worth. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
