From 8da5ebe11e0cb6599af682b22f7c2b2b7b9debd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Anders=20Hovm=C3=B6ller?= <boxed@killingar.net>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 21:27:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] bpo-35138: Added an example for timeit.timeit with callable
 arguments (GH-9787)

* Update timeit.rst
---
 Doc/library/timeit.rst | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/timeit.rst b/Doc/library/timeit.rst
index 8ca37034f79..ef7a4e40be6 100644
--- a/Doc/library/timeit.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/timeit.rst
@@ -44,8 +44,12 @@ This can be achieved from the :ref:`python-interface` with::
    >>> timeit.timeit('"-".join(map(str, range(100)))', number=10000)
    0.23702679807320237
 
+A callable can also be passed from the :ref:`python-interface`::
 
-Note however that :mod:`timeit` will automatically determine the number of
+   >>> timeit.timeit(lambda: "-".join(map(str, range(100))), number=10000)
+   0.19665591977536678
+
+Note however that :func:`.timeit` will automatically determine the number of
 repetitions only when the command-line interface is used.  In the
 :ref:`timeit-examples` section you can find more advanced examples.