Decorator: TImeit

timeit.py

def timeit(method):
    def timing(*args, **kwargs):
        timings = []
        print("Running this 1000 loops, for benchmarking")
        
        for i in range(1000):  
            start = time.time()
            result = method(*args, **kwargs)
            end = time.time()
            
            timings.append(end-start)
        
        average = np.average(timings)
        std_dev = statistics.stdev(timings)
        print("{:.2f} ms ± {:.3f} ms average time taken per loop (mean ± std. dev. to run 1000 loops)"\
              .format(average*1000, std_dev*1000))
        return(result)
    return(timing)