Documentation

At the moment, it is as follows.

The return value may not always be a float measured in seconds. If a different timer function is used:

timeit.timeit(timer=time.perf_counter_ns)

then it is an integer measured in nanoseconds.

Not entirely sure how to document it unambiguously, but perhaps it can be reworded to say something like: '… as a number measured in the time unit returned by the timer argument of the constructor (by default: a float measured in seconds).' Or similar?

Linked PRs

• gh-105052:update timeit function's description #105060
• [3.12] gh-105052:update timeit function's description (GH-105060) #108534
• [3.11] gh-105052:update timeit function's description (GH-105060) #108535