[Python-Dev] cProfile prints to stdout? (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Sat Feb 25 21:35:22 CET 2006


On 2/25/06, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

I just noticed that cProfile (like profile) prints to stdout. Yuck. I guess that's to be expected because the pstats module does the actual printing and it's used by both modules. I'm willing to give up backward compatibility to achieve a little more sanity and flexibility here. I propose rewriting the necessary bits to att a stream= keyword argument where necessary and using stream.write(...) or print >> stream, ... instead of the current bare print. I'd prefer the default for the stream be sys.stderr as well.

Thoughts?

+0 from me (would be +1 since it seems very reasonable, but I never use profile and this will break some code somewhere).

-Brett



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