Python Language Tutorial => timeit command line

Example

Profiling concatanation of numbers

python -m timeit "'-'.join(str(n) for n in range(100))"
10000 loops, best of 3: 29.2 usec per loop

python -m timeit "'-'.join(map(str,range(100)))"
100000 loops, best of 3: 19.4 usec per loop