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10.1 Introduction to the profiler

A profiler is a program that describes the run time performance of a program, providing a variety of statistics. This documentation describes the profiler functionality provided in the modules profile and pstats. This profiler provides deterministic profiling of any Python programs. It also provides a series of report generation tools to allow users to rapidly examine the results of a profile operation.

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