The run()
function in cProfile.py
looks like this (in Python 2.7, but the same approach applies to Python 3 as well). From there you see that if you work with a Profile
object directly, you can dump_stats
to where you want after profiling.
def run(statement, filename=None, sort=-1):
"""Run statement under profiler optionally saving results in filename
This function takes a single argument that can be passed to the
"exec" statement, and an optional file name. In all cases this
routine attempts to "exec" its first argument and gather profiling
statistics from the execution. If no file name is present, then this
function automatically prints a simple profiling report, sorted by the
standard name string (file/line/function-name) that is presented in
each line.
"""
prof = Profile()
result = None
try:
try:
prof = prof.run(statement)
except SystemExit:
pass
finally:
if filename is not None:
prof.dump_stats(filename)
else:
result = prof.print_stats(sort)
return result