Getting “global name 'foo' is not defined” with Python's timeit

Question

I\'m trying to find out how much time it takes to execute a Python statement, so I looked online and found that the standard library provides a module called timeit that pur

Answer 1

You can try this hack:

import timeit

def foo():
    print 'bar'

def dotime():
    t = timeit.Timer("foo()")
    time = t.timeit(1)
    print "took %fs\n" % (time,)

import __builtin__
__builtin__.__dict__.update(locals())

dotime()