How to use timeit module

Question

I understand the concept of what timeit does but I am not sure how to implement it in my code.

How can I compare two functions, say insertion_sort

Answer 1

simply pass your entire code as an argument of timeit:

import timeit

print(timeit.timeit(

"""   
limit = 10000
prime_list = [i for i in range(2, limit+1)]

for prime in prime_list:
    for elem in range(prime*2, max(prime_list)+1, prime):
        if elem in prime_list:
            prime_list.remove(elem)
"""   
, number=10))