The Error can be evidenced below:

```
>>>
>>> import timeit
>>>
>>> timeit.timeit('', number=10000)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/timeit.py", line 232, in timeit
    return Timer(stmt, setup, timer, globals).timeit(number)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/timeit.py", line 131, in __init__
    code = compile(src, dummy_src_name, "exec")
  File "<timeit-src>", line 7
    _t1 = _timer()
    ^
IndentationError: expected an indented block
>>>
```