What unit of time does timeit return?

Question

I don\'t know how to interpret the output from Python\'s timeit.timeit() function. My code is as follows:

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Answer 1

The return value is seconds as a float.

It is the total time taken to run the test (not counting the setup), so the average time per test is that number divided by the number argument, which defaults to 1 million.

See the Time.timeit() documentation:

Time number executions of the main statement. This executes the setup statement once, and then returns the time it takes to execute the main statement a number of times, measured in seconds as a float. The argument is the number of times through the loop, defaulting to one million.