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 with input.
So far I have tried:
output = %timeit -r 10 results = methodX(N)
It does not work...
Can't find info in the docs either. I feel like you should be able to at least intercept the string that is printed. After that I can parse it to extract my info.
Has anyone done this or tried?
PS: this is in an ipython notebook if that makes a diff.
This duplicate question Capture the result of an IPython magic function has an answer demonstrating that this has since been implemented.
Calling the %timeit magic with the -o option like:
%timeit -o <statement>
returns a TimeitResult object which is a simple object with all information about the %timeit run as attributes. For example:
In [1]: result = %timeit -o 1 + 2
Out[1]: 10000000 loops, best of 3: 23.2 ns per loop
In [2]: result.best
Out[2]: 2.3192405700683594e-08
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.
