Unit 6 Lesson 7: lines in quotes are processed? WHAT?

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Hello,
In unit 6, lesson 7, our friend Mosh puts a tripple quote on the lines of code 3 to 14 as seen at timestamp 0:43.
NOW… from what I understand a triple quote is to make a string to span multiple lines. If it’s a string, why is it executed a regular code at timestamp 1:48.

Please, someone explain.

Thank you

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Because the string is passed to timeit() which executes the code in the string dynamically. See eval() and exec() for other means of dynamically executing code.

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Wonderful! Thank you Sam.
I investigated the timeit() function in greater depth. Makes sense now.

Thanks,
M.