timeit.py

"""Just showing off timeit to tell the difference between operations."""

from timeit import Timer


# We'll run each one a thousand times.
print Timer("[0] * 7000").timeit(1000)
print Timer("bytearray(7000)").timeit(1000)


# Just a JSON example.
print Timer("""json.loads('{"a": {"b": {"c": "d"}}}')""",
            "import json").timeit(1000)
print Timer("""json.loads('{"a": {"b": {"c": "d"}}}')""",
            "import simplejson as json").timeit(1000)