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

Raymond Hettinger python at rcn.com
Sat Feb 25 21:39:24 CET 2006


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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?

FWIW, this idea has come-up a couple of times before so it should probably get fixed once and for all.

Raymond



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