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

In the source file you linked to, the docstring shows the options for running the timeit magic function; one of which is returning an object result:

-o: return a TimeitResult that can be stored in a variable to inspect
        the result in more details.

So, if you run

obj = %timeit -o somefunc()

obj will reference the result object that was returned (hint: use tab completion on the object, that will show you the attributes it has).