magic-function

What is %timeit in Python? Question: I always read the code to calculate the time like this way: %timeit function() What does "%" mean here? I think, the "%" is always used to replace something in a string, like %s means replace a string, %d replace a data, but I have no idea about this …

Interactive Python: cannot get `%lprun` to work, although line_profiler is imported properly Question: Problem Most iPython “magic functions” work fine for me right off the bat: %hist, %time, %prun, etc. However, I noticed that %lprun could not be found with iPython as I’d installed it originally. Attempt to Resolve I then discovered that I should …