Capture the result of an IPython magic function

Question

I\'m trying to capture the resulting object of IPython Notebook magic function. Specifically %timeit

So the following code...

import tim         


        

Answer 1

Complementing @dsemi's answer: Use -o to save the timeit result into a variable, e.g.:

obj = %timeit -o somefunc()

The docstring documentation of the TimeitResult when using tab completion shows the available attributes:

Object returned by the timeit magic with info about the run.

Contains the following attributes :

loops: (int) number of loops done per measurement
repeat: (int) number of times the measurement has been repeated
best: (float) best execution time / number
all_runs: (list of float) execution time of each run (in s)
compile_time: (float) time of statement compilation (s)