Problem with profiler module

[Randall Hopper]

Tomaz Ficko:
 |I have problem with profiler module. Below is listing of python
 |interpreter session.  I can run profiler from command line with now
 |problem. What is the problem?
 |
 |Python 1.5.2 (#1, Apr 30 1999, 22:36:07)  [GCC 2.7.2] on linux2
 |Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
 |>>> def f(x):
 |	x.append(1)
 |	
 |	
 |>>> import profile
 |>>> a=[]
 |>>> profile.run('f(a)')
 |Traceback (innermost last):
 |  File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in ?
 |    profile.run("f(a)")
 |  File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/profile.py", line 62, in run
 |    prof = prof.run(statement)
 |  File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/profile.py", line 348, in run
 |    return self.runctx(cmd, dict, dict)
 |  File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/profile.py", line 354, in runctx
 |    exec cmd in globals, locals
 |  File "<string>", line 1, in ?
 |NameError: f

Having gone through this myself recently (albeit not in idle), you
might try:

      import profile
      a=[]
      prof = profile.Profile()
      prof.runctx( 'f(a)', globals(), locals() )
      prof.print_stats()

If that works, you can just define:

     import profile
     def runctx(statement, globals, locals, *args):
             prof = profile.Profile()
             try:
                     prof = prof.runctx( statement, globals, locals )
             except SystemExit:
                     pass
             if args:
                     prof.dump_stats(args[0])
             else:
                     return prof.print_stats()

and then subsequently use:

      a=[]
      runctx( 'f(a)', globals(), locals() )

Hopefully this convenience function will be added to profile.py in the next
version.

Randall