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.