At 04:33 AM 10/12/2006, Kent Johnson wrote: >Looking at the code and your numbers, my guess is that the time to make >a Python function call on your computer is about 2 microseconds (20 msec >/ 10000). (I mean the entire overhead - looking up the function and >actually calling it.)
Hm. Does this test include the entire overhead? C:\>python -m timeit -r 3 -s"from random import random" "random()" 10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.157 usec per loop Dick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor