[Python-Dev] Tutorial: Brief Introduction to the Standard Library (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger python at rcn.com
Mon Dec 1 16:30:19 EST 2003

[Michael Chermside]

So I'd say DO include a (brief!) tutorial example on using timeit. But perhaps craft the example so it shows two approaches, one readable and one obscure, and the obscure one is shown to be FASTER but not MUCH faster, and is therefore DROPPED in favor of the more readable. (Hey... rigging the problem set in order to model good practices is an old teacher's trick I've used often.)

Especially, in the tutorial, stacking the deck is fair play.

And having piped up with my own 2c, I'd better pay up. Raymond... if you're working on this and need help, send me an example or two of other modules (so I can try to follow your style) and I'll volunteer to write one for timeit.

I expect to be able to wrap it up this weekend.

Raymond

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