timeit and __future__

[Steven D'Aprano]

Karl Chen wrote:

> 
> I wanted to time something that uses with_statement, in python2.5.
> Importing __future__ in the statement or the setup doesn't work
> since it's not the beginning of the code being compiled.  Other
> than using a separate module, I could only come up with this:
> 
>     timeit.template = 'from __future__ import with_statement\n' +
>     timeit.template
> 
> timeit should directly support importing __future__ stuff...

Yes, it probably should. Please make a bug report/feature request at the
Python bug tracker. If you have a patch, that would be even better.

http://bugs.python.org/



-- 
Steven