Is there any simple way to benchmark python script?

Question

Usually I use shell command time. My purpose is to test if data is small, medium, large or very large set, how much time and memory usage will be.

Any t

Answer 1

The timeit module was slow and weird, so I wrote this:

def timereps(reps, func):
    from time import time
    start = time()
    for i in range(0, reps):
        func()
    end = time()
    return (end - start) / reps

Example:

import os
listdir_time = timereps(10000, lambda: os.listdir('/'))
print "python can do %d os.listdir('/') per second" % (1 / listdir_time)

For me, it says:

python can do 40925 os.listdir('/') per second

This is a primitive sort of benchmarking, but it's good enough.