[Python-ideas] api suggestions for the cProfile module
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Jan 10 17:55:57 EST 2017
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
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