Simple way to measure cell execution time in ipython notebook

Question

I would like to get the time spent on the cell execution in addition to the original output from cell.

To this end, I tried %%timeit -r1 -n1 but it does

Answer 1

You can use timeit magic function for that.

%timeit CODE_LINE

Or on the cell

%%timeit 

SOME_CELL_CODE

Check more IPython magic functions at https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/ipython/ipython/blob/1.x/examples/notebooks/Cell%20Magics.ipynb