如果你想快速比较两个代码/函数块，你可以这样做:

import timeit

start_time = timeit.default_timer()
func1()
print(timeit.default_timer() - start_time)

start_time = timeit.default_timer()
func2()
print(timeit.default_timer() - start_time)

如何使用带有接受参数的函数的Python REPL解释器的示例。

>>> import timeit                                                                                         

>>> def naive_func(x):                                                                                    
...     a = 0                                                                                             
...     for i in range(a):                                                                                
...         a += i                                                                                        
...     return a                                                                                          

>>> def wrapper(func, *args, **kwargs):                                                                   
...     def wrapper():                                                                                    
...         return func(*args, **kwargs)                                                                  
...     return wrapper                                                                                    

>>> wrapped = wrapper(naive_func, 1_000)                                                                  

>>> timeit.timeit(wrapped, number=1_000_000)                                                              
0.4458435332577161                                                                                        

# Генерация целых чисел

def gen_prime(x):
    multiples = []
    results = []
    for i in range(2, x+1):
        if i not in multiples:
            results.append(i)
            for j in range(i*i, x+1, i):
                multiples.append(j)

    return results


import timeit

# Засекаем время

start_time = timeit.default_timer()
gen_prime(3000)
print(timeit.default_timer() - start_time)

# start_time = timeit.default_timer()
# gen_prime(1001)
# print(timeit.default_timer() - start_time)

import timeit


def oct(x):
   return x*x


timeit.Timer("for x in range(100): oct(x)", "gc.enable()").timeit()

内置的timeit模块在IPython命令行中工作得最好。

为模块内的函数计时:

from timeit import default_timer as timer
import sys

def timefunc(func, *args, **kwargs):
    """Time a function. 

    args:
        iterations=3

    Usage example:
        timeit(myfunc, 1, b=2)
    """
    try:
        iterations = kwargs.pop('iterations')
    except KeyError:
        iterations = 3
    elapsed = sys.maxsize
    for _ in range(iterations):
        start = timer()
        result = func(*args, **kwargs)
        elapsed = min(timer() - start, elapsed)
    print(('Best of {} {}(): {:.9f}'.format(iterations, func.__name__, elapsed)))
    return result

我发现使用timeit最简单的方法是从命令行:

鉴于test.py:

def InsertionSort(): ...
def TimSort(): ...

像这样运行timeit:

% python -mtimeit -s'import test' 'test.InsertionSort()'
% python -mtimeit -s'import test' 'test.TimSort()'