[Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 126, Issue 64

[Najam Qasim]

What is preferable method to debug and execute python code in Mac? I do not like the cmd/terminal execution. Thank you.

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> Hi all,
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> 1. why do some say that the time module is more accurate than the timeit
> module?
> s = time.time()
> or
> s = timeit.timeit()
> 
> 2. Why is it that both modules never return the same answer on each run?
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> Thank you for your response.
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> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:34:15 +0200
> From: Chris ?Kwpolska? Warrick <kwpolska at gmail.com>
> To: diliup gabadamudalige <diliupg at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Tutor] time vs. timeit
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> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:26 AM, diliup gabadamudalige
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>> Hi all,
>> 
>> 1. why do some say that the time module is more accurate than the timeit
>> module?
>> s = time.time()
>> or
>> s = timeit.timeit()
>> 
>> 2. Why is it that both modules never return the same answer on each run?
> 
> The two functions have completely different uses, and do completely
> different things.
> 
>>>> help(time.time)
> Help on built-in function time in module time:
> 
> time(...)
>    time() -> floating point number
> 
>    Return the current time in seconds since the Epoch.
>    Fractions of a second may be present if the system clock provides them.
> 
> 
> In other words, return this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time
> 
> 
>>>> help(timeit)
> NAME
>    timeit - Tool for measuring execution time of small code snippets.
> 
> [?]
>     |  timeit(self, number=1000000)
>     |      Time 'number' executions of the main statement.
>     |
>     |      To be precise, this executes the setup statement once, and
>     |      then returns the time it takes to execute the main statement
>     |      a number of times, as a float measured in seconds.  The
>     |      argument is the number of times through the loop, defaulting
>     |      to one million.  The main statement, the setup statement and
>     |      the timer function to be used are passed to the constructor.
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