[Python] Why does the output is 4 seconds, but real time of work is less?

I have a simple decorator to measure time of function in seconds

from functools import wraps
from time import time

def time_it(func):
@wraps(func)
def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
start_time = time()
res = func(*args, **kwargs)
print("Time: ", time() - start_time)
return res
return wrapper


@time_it
def cycle():
res = 0
for i in range(1000):
res += i
return res



cycle()


The code outputs "Time: 4.4" I see that function works faster than 4 seconds

Also checked with help of time utility:

time python 0_decorators/decorator.py
Time: 4.38690185546875e-05
python 0_decorators/decorator.py 0.02s user 0.02s system 65% cpu 0.059 total


Why does the output is 4 seconds, but real time of work is less? (I am using python3.11 and MacOS 12)

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