How can I time a code segment for testing performance with Pythons timeit?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2866...

Question links:
[timeit]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/timeit...

Accepted answer links:
[time.time()]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.h...
[time.clock()]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.h...
[timeit]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/timeit...

Answer 3 links:
[timeit.timeit]: http://docs.python.org/library/timeit.ht...

Answer 4 links:
[timeit.timeit()]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/timeit...
[timeit.default_timer()]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/timeit...

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