timeit and __future__

[Karl Chen]

I wanted to time something that uses with_statement, in python2.5.
Importing __future__ in the statement or the setup doesn't work
since it's not the beginning of the code being compiled. Other
than using a separate module, I could only come up with this:

timeit.template = 'from __future__ import with_statement\n' + timeit.template

timeit should directly support importing __future__ stuff...

 

[Steven D'Aprano]

I wanted to time something that uses with_statement, in python2.5.
Importing __future__ in the statement or the setup doesn't work
since it's not the beginning of the code being compiled. Other
than using a separate module, I could only come up with this:

timeit.template = 'from __future__ import with_statement\n' +
timeit.template

timeit should directly support importing __future__ stuff...

Yes, it probably should. Please make a bug report/feature request at the
Python bug tracker. If you have a patch, that would be even better.

http://bugs.python.org/