bpo-28240: timeit: Update repeat() doc (GH-7419) (GH-7457)
Document that the default value of repeat changed from 3 to 5 in
Python 3.7.
(cherry picked from commit 3ef769fcd378a7f1cda19c0dfec2e79613d79e48)
Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com>
diff --git a/Lib/timeit.py b/Lib/timeit.py
index 418166d..c0362bc 100755
--- a/Lib/timeit.py
+++ b/Lib/timeit.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
Options:
-n/--number N: how many times to execute 'statement' (default: see below)
- -r/--repeat N: how many times to repeat the timer (default 3)
+ -r/--repeat N: how many times to repeat the timer (default 5)
-s/--setup S: statement to be executed once initially (default 'pass').
Execution time of this setup statement is NOT timed.
-p/--process: use time.process_time() (default is time.perf_counter())
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@
This is a convenience function that calls the timeit()
repeatedly, returning a list of results. The first argument
- specifies how many times to call timeit(), defaulting to 3;
+ specifies how many times to call timeit(), defaulting to 5;
the second argument specifies the timer argument, defaulting
to one million.