Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: May be add a guard against statements which can confuse timeit? These are not only "return", but "yield", and "break" and "continue" outside of a loop. Proposed patch checks that testing code can be compiled outside of a function. ---------- assignee: docs@python -> components: +Library (Lib) -Documentation nosy: +serhiy.storchaka stage: -> patch review versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.3 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file37577/timeit_reject_invalid_statements.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18518> _______________________________________