[Python-ideas] api suggestions for the cProfile module

[Terry Reedy]

On 1/10/2017 11:36 AM, Thane Brimhall wrote:
> Does anyone have thoughts on this topic? I assume the silence is because
> this suggestion is too trivial to matter.

1 and 3 don't really need discussion here.  2 perhaps.  I would open 3 
separate enhancement issues.  As near as I can tell, profile and 
cProfile have the same API and to the extent it is true, this should be 
maintained.

> On Tuesday, December 20, 2016 at 5:51:49 PM UTC-7, Thane Brimhall wrote:
>
>     I use cProfile a lot, and would like to suggest three
>     backwards-compatible improvements to the API.
>
>     1: When using cProfile on a specific piece of code I often use the
>     enable() and disable() methods. It occurred to me that this would be
>     an obvious place to use a context manager.
>
>     2: Enhance the `print_stats` method on Profile to accept more
>     options currently available only through the pstats.Stats class. For
>     example, strip_dirs could be a boolean argument, and limit could
>     accept an int. This would reduce the number of cases you'd need to
>     use the more complex API.
>
>     3: I often forget which string keys are available for sorting. It
>     would be nice to add an enum for these so a user could have their
>     linter and IDE check that value pre-runtime. Since it would subclass
>     `str` and `Enum` it would still work with all currently existing code.

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Terry Jan Reedy