from sympy.core.numbers import Integer from sympy.matrices.dense import (eye, zeros) i3 = Integer(3) M = eye(100) def timeit_Matrix__getitem_ii(): M[3, 3] def timeit_Matrix__getitem_II(): M[i3, i3] def timeit_Matrix__getslice(): M[:, :] def timeit_Matrix_zeronm(): zeros(100, 100)