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10.9 hotshot -- High performance logging profiler

New in version 2.2.

This module provides a nicer interface to the _hotshot C module. Hotshot is a replacement for the existing profile module. As it's written mostly in C, it should result in a much smaller performance impact than the existing profile module.

class Profile(

logfile[, lineevents=0[, linetimings=1]])

The profiler object. The argument logfile is the name of a log file to use for logged profile data. The argument lineevents specifies whether to generate events for every source line, or just on function call/return. It defaults to 0 (only log function call/return). The argument linetimings specifies whether to record timing information. It defaults to 1 (store timing information).

• 10.9.1 Profile Objects
• 10.9.2 Using hotshot data
• 10.9.3 Example Usage

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Release 2.3, documentation updated on July 29, 2003.