Fix closes Issue12697 - Update the usage syntax of timeit module in the docs.
diff --git a/Doc/library/timeit.rst b/Doc/library/timeit.rst
index 29a941c..21f9796 100644
--- a/Doc/library/timeit.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/timeit.rst
@@ -195,13 +195,13 @@
:keyword:`try`/:keyword:`except` to test for missing and present object
attributes. ::
- % timeit.py 'try:' ' str.__nonzero__' 'except AttributeError:' ' pass'
+ $ python -m timeit 'try:' ' str.__nonzero__' 'except AttributeError:' ' pass'
100000 loops, best of 3: 15.7 usec per loop
- % timeit.py 'if hasattr(str, "__nonzero__"): pass'
+ $ python -m timeit 'if hasattr(str, "__nonzero__"): pass'
100000 loops, best of 3: 4.26 usec per loop
- % timeit.py 'try:' ' int.__nonzero__' 'except AttributeError:' ' pass'
+ $ python -m timeit 'try:' ' int.__nonzero__' 'except AttributeError:' ' pass'
1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.43 usec per loop
- % timeit.py 'if hasattr(int, "__nonzero__"): pass'
+ $ python -m timeit 'if hasattr(int, "__nonzero__"): pass'
100000 loops, best of 3: 2.23 usec per loop
::
@@ -242,12 +242,12 @@
``setup`` parameter which contains an import statement::
def test():
- "Stupid test function"
+ """Stupid test function"""
L = []
for i in range(100):
L.append(i)
- if __name__=='__main__':
+ if __name__ == '__main__':
from timeit import Timer
t = Timer("test()", "from __main__ import test")
print t.timeit()