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The %timeit magic runs the given code many times, then returns the speed of the fastest result. In [1]: %timeit sum(range(100000)) 100 loops, best of 3: 2.91 ms per loop The %%timeit cell magic can be used to time blocks of code. In [2]: %%timeit ...: a = 0 ...: for i in range(100000):...

Magics whose name begins with just one % take as argument the rest of the line and are called line magics. Magics that begin with a double percent sign %% take a multi-line argument and are called cell magics. A commonly used magic is %timeit, a wrapper around the Python's timeit.timeit function, f...