I have a Python application in which I would like to monitor the number of calls to functions in the standard random module, at runtime; is there any nice way to do this, or do I have to “manually” do it?
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I have a Python application in which I would like to monitor the number of calls to functions in the standard random module, at runtime; is there any nice way to do this, or do I have to “manually” do it?
It seems to me that Python profiler should be able to do it “nicely”. Look at a post about Python profiling on SO.
At runtime, it seems that the decorators are the way to go. Of course, the default random module does not have the decorators, so perhaps you need to define a monitoredrandom module with decorators that proxys the random module and counts the calls. If you keep the function names and signatures the same as in random, you only have to modify the imports in your code.