Python time measure question (timeit)

[vedrandekovic at yahoo.com]

On 1 velj, 17:42, Steve Holden <st... at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> vedrandeko... at yahoo.com wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > When I run following code with os.popen  (for this time measure I'm
> > using python module timeit):
>
> > for i in range(50):
> >     print i
>
> > I get this result:  0.00246958761519
>
> > But when I run same code from IDLE i get this result:
> > 6.4533341528e-005
>
> > now, I have two questions:
> >               1) Which of this results is correct?
>
> Both are. What makes you think that printing in IDLE (to a GUI) should
> take the same amount of time as it does "running with os.popen (whatever
> that means). The two environments are likely to be completely different,
> but you haven't show the exact code you ran so it's hard to be more exact.
>
> >               2) Are this results in micro seconds?
>
> No, seconds, as it says in the documentation:
>
> """This executes the setup statement once, and then returns the time it
> takes to execute the main statement a number of times, measured in
> seconds as a float""".
>
> Even a modern computer doesn't do much in .0024 microseconds.
>
> regards
>  Steve
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Hello again,

This is the code that I ran:

a) Main code:

This code is in .exe:

  t = Timer("import os;os.popen('python myscript.py arg1 2 3')")
  print t.timeit()


b) myscript.py code:

    import sys
    print sys.argv[1]
    var1=int(sys.argv[2])
    var2=int(sys.argv[3])
    var3=var1+var2


Regards,
John