[3.12] pythongh-106232: Make timeit doc command lines compatible with…

… Windows. (pythonGH-106296) (python#106298)

pythongh-106232: Make timeit doc command lines compatible with Windows. (pythonGH-106296)

Command Prompt (CMD Shell) and older versions of PowerShell
require double quotes and single quotes inside the string.
This form also works on linux and macOS.
(cherry picked from commit 04dfc6f)

Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>

Doc/library/timeit.rst

@@ -27,11 +27,11 @@ can be used to compare three different expressions:
 
 .. code-block:: shell-session
 
-   $ python -m timeit '"-".join(str(n) for n in range(100))'
+   $ python -m timeit "'-'.join(str(n) for n in range(100))"
    10000 loops, best of 5: 30.2 usec per loop
-   $ python -m timeit '"-".join([str(n) for n in range(100)])'
+   $ python -m timeit "'-'.join([str(n) for n in range(100)])"
    10000 loops, best of 5: 27.5 usec per loop
-   $ python -m timeit '"-".join(map(str, range(100)))'
+   $ python -m timeit "'-'.join(map(str, range(100)))"
    10000 loops, best of 5: 23.2 usec per loop
 
 This can be achieved from the :ref:`python-interface` with::
@@ -277,9 +277,9 @@ It is possible to provide a setup statement that is executed only once at the be
 
 .. code-block:: shell-session
 
-   $ python -m timeit -s 'text = "sample string"; char = "g"'  'char in text'
+   $ python -m timeit -s "text = 'sample string'; char = 'g'" "char in text"
    5000000 loops, best of 5: 0.0877 usec per loop
-   $ python -m timeit -s 'text = "sample string"; char = "g"'  'text.find(char)'
+   $ python -m timeit -s "text = 'sample string'; char = 'g'" "text.find(char)"
    1000000 loops, best of 5: 0.342 usec per loop
 
 In the output, there are three fields. The loop count, which tells you how many
@@ -313,14 +313,14 @@ to test for missing and present object attributes:
 
 .. code-block:: shell-session
 
-   $ python -m timeit 'try:' '  str.__bool__' 'except AttributeError:' '  pass'
+   $ python -m timeit "try:" "  str.__bool__" "except AttributeError:" "  pass"
    20000 loops, best of 5: 15.7 usec per loop
-   $ python -m timeit 'if hasattr(str, "__bool__"): pass'
+   $ python -m timeit "if hasattr(str, '__bool__'): pass"
    50000 loops, best of 5: 4.26 usec per loop
 
-   $ python -m timeit 'try:' '  int.__bool__' 'except AttributeError:' '  pass'
+   $ python -m timeit "try:" "  int.__bool__" "except AttributeError:" "  pass"
    200000 loops, best of 5: 1.43 usec per loop
-   $ python -m timeit 'if hasattr(int, "__bool__"): pass'
+   $ python -m timeit "if hasattr(int, '__bool__'): pass"
    100000 loops, best of 5: 2.23 usec per loop
 
 ::

Doc/using/cmdline.rst

@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ source.
    Many standard library modules contain code that is invoked on their execution
    as a script.  An example is the :mod:`timeit` module::
 
-       python -m timeit -s 'setup here' 'benchmarked code here'
+       python -m timeit -s "setup here" "benchmarked code here"
        python -m timeit -h # for details
 
    .. audit-event:: cpython.run_module module-name cmdoption-m

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2023-06-30-19-28-59.gh-issue-106232.hQ4-tz.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Make timeit doc command lines compatible with Windows by using double quotes
+for arguments.  This works on linux and macOS also.