Can you use gprof to profile python extensions?

[Alex]

Hi.  I'd like to profile an extension I've written, and I'm having some
trouble doing it.  The extension is statically linked into python
(version 2.0), and I recompiled python with OPT= -g -pg
However, running python does not produce a file called gmon.out.  Is it
possible to use gprof with python, and if so, does anyone have a
suggestion about what I might be doing wrong?

Alex.