No Module Named pstats

[Joshua Kugler]

Chris wrote:

> On Feb 13, 11:20 am, "Juha S." <s... at iloinen.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to use the Python profilers to test my code, but I get the
>> following output for cProfile.run() at the interpreter:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/cProfile.py", line 36, in run
>>     result = prof.print_stats(sort)
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/cProfile.py", line 80, in print_stats
>>     import pstats
>> ImportError: No module named pstats
>>
>> I also tried to use the profile module but I get:
>>
>>  >>> import profile
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> ImportError: No module named profile
>>
>> I'm on Ubuntu 7.10 with Python 2.5, and I can't seem to figure out
>> what's missing.
> 
> There is no module called 'profile', it's called 'cProfile'.  Both
> 'cProfile' and 'pstats' are part of the standard distro, have you
> tried downloading a new binary and installing it ?

There is a module called profile, as well as cProfile.  And as Ilias said,
you probably do have to install python-profile (or whatever package your
system places the profiler in).

j