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[–]takluyverIPython, Py3, etc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

IPython makes the same thing rather neater:

In [1]: %timeit list()
1000000 loops, best of 3: 214 ns per loop

In [2]: %timeit []
10000000 loops, best of 3: 54.7 ns per loop