Can you capture the output of ipython's magic methods? (timeit)

Question

I want to capture and plot the results from 5 or so timeit calls with logarithmically increasing sizes of N to show how methodX() scales w

Answer 1

PS: this is in an ipython notebook if that makes a diff.

No it does not.

On dev there is te %%capture cell magic. The other way would be to modify the timeit magic to return value instead of printing, or use the timeit module itself. Patches welcomed.