# Equivalent of BenchmarkTools in Python?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/equivalent-of-benchmarktools-in-python/97011
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**Tags:** question, benchmark, benchmarktools, python
**Created:** [April 3, 2023, 1:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/equivalent-of-benchmarktools-in-python/97011 "2023-04-03T13:01:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@sylvaticus](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sylvaticus)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2023, 1:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/equivalent-of-benchmarktools-in-python/97011/1 "2023-04-03T13:01:45Z")
Which is the equivalent of @btime/ @benchmark in Python?
I would like something to interactively benchmark a single expression (function call) and where the number of run adapt to the running cost of the expression to benchmark.
I can’t get timeit/pyperf for this ☹
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### Author:  [@yakir12](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yakir12)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2023, 1:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/equivalent-of-benchmarktools-in-python/97011/2 "2023-04-03T13:06:35Z")
> **[GitHub - JuliaCI/BenchmarkTools.jl: A benchmarking framework for the Julia...](https://github.com/JuliaCI/BenchmarkTools.jl)**
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> A benchmarking framework for the Julia language. Contribute to JuliaCI/BenchmarkTools.jl development by creating an account on GitHub.
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### Author:  [@sylvaticus](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sylvaticus)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2023, 1:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/equivalent-of-benchmarktools-in-python/97011/3 "2023-04-03T13:08:56Z")
yes, but I am looking to something similar in Python…
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### Author:  [@yakir12](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yakir12)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2023, 1:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/equivalent-of-benchmarktools-in-python/97011/4 "2023-04-03T13:11:38Z")
omg sorry… I guess it’s time for a break…
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### Author:  [@sylvaticus](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sylvaticus)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2023, 1:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/equivalent-of-benchmarktools-in-python/97011/5 "2023-04-03T13:33:55Z")
It’s crazy how little there is about this in Python… I was convinced to find something like this in seconds, instead the best out there seems to get the current time before and after and subtract, or profile a whole script using command line tools…
Th beauty of @BenchmarkTools is that it is so simple, just `@btime ...code..` and you are done, no need to create a struct for the number of times to run the code, the name of the benchmark… sometimes it’s ok, but most of the time I just need a quick benchmark, and that’s what BenchmarkTools provides, but crazy I can’t find something similar in Python…
Crosspost on SO: [benchmarking - How to benchmark a single function call in Python? - Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75919967/how-to-benchmark-a-single-function-call-in-python)
(end of course, starting having downvotes there, I don’t know why, as I did search before…)
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### Author:  [@adienes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/adienes)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2023, 1:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/equivalent-of-benchmarktools-in-python/97011/6 "2023-04-03T13:43:36Z")
there is [GitHub - plasma-umass/scalene: Scalene: a high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, and memory profiler for Python with AI-powered optimization proposals](https://github.com/plasma-umass/scalene), but I’ve never used it myself before
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### Author:  [@tbeason](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tbeason)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2023, 1:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/equivalent-of-benchmarktools-in-python/97011/7 "2023-04-03T13:47:20Z")
Looking at the docs for timeit, it does seem like you can get it to behave as `@benchmark` does.
> **[timeit — Measure execution time of small code snippets](https://docs.python.org/3/library/timeit.html)**
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> Source code: Lib/timeit.py This module provides a simple way to time small bits of Python code. It has both a Command-Line Interface as well as a callable one. It avoids a number of common traps fo...
See `autorange`, for example.
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### Author:  [@tim.holy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tim.holy)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2023, 2:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/equivalent-of-benchmarktools-in-python/97011/8 "2023-04-03T14:17:00Z")
We’ve been slowly setting up cross-language benchmarks. I agree the Python options are slightly weird, but you can see what we ended up with here: [image\_benchmarks/benchmarks.py at main · JuliaImages/image\_benchmarks · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaImages/image_benchmarks/blob/main/python-skimage/benchmarks.py)
Surprising that even simple stuff like dividing by the number of repeats appears to be something you have to do manually.
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### Author:  [@lmiq](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lmiq)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/equivalent-of-benchmarktools-in-python/97011/9 "2023-04-03T15:09:42Z")
If using `IPython` the `%timeit` macro is probably the closest you can get.