[Tutor] Generator next()

[eryksun]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 4:45 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> Anyway, if I'm going to criticise, I ought to show what I consider
> better. Here's a quick and unpolished decorator for instrumenting
> functions. For simplicity, it too will be inaccurate for Windows and
> really fast/small functions, but I reckon this is good enough for a
> first draft.

Use timeit.default_timer. Or just copy how it's defined:

    if sys.platform == "win32":
        # On Windows, the best timer is time.clock()
        default_timer = time.clock
    else:
        # On most other platforms the best timer is time.time()
        default_timer = time.time

In 3.3, it's updated to use time.perf_counter() on all platforms:

http://docs.python.org/3/library/time#time.perf_counter