Question

I would like to profile python code from an object point of view. E.g.:

foo = Foo()
profiled_foo = add_profiling(foo)

# use profiled_foo like foo
...

# later
profiled_foo.print_profile()

And I would like to get calls per method and cumulative time spent per method. I didn’t find anything similar, although I think it shouldn’t be too hard to write.

Does any library like that exist? Or maybe not because profiling this way would be a bad idea?

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Based on Paul McGuire’s answer:

import inspect

from time import sleep
from profilehooks import profile

class Foo(object):
    def a(self):
        sleep(0.1)

    def b(self):
        sleep(0.3)

    def c(self):
        sleep(0.5)

def add_profiling(obj):
    for k in dir(obj):
        attr = getattr(obj, k)
        if inspect.ismethod(attr) and k != '__init__':
            setattr(obj, k, profile(attr))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    foo = Foo()
    add_profiling(foo)

    foo.a()
    foo.a()
    foo.b()
    foo.b()
    foo.a()
    foo.c()

.

*** PROFILER RESULTS ***
c (oprof.py:13)
function called 1 times

         3 function calls in 0.501 CPU seconds

   Ordered by: cumulative time, internal time, call count

   ncalls  tottime  percall  cumtime  percall filename:lineno(function)
        1    0.000    0.000    0.501    0.501 oprof.py:13(c)
        1    0.501    0.501    0.501    0.501 {time.sleep}
        1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 {method 'disable' of '_lsprof.Profiler' objects}
        0    0.000             0.000          profile:0(profiler)

...

Answer 1

I’ve had pretty good success with these decorators: http://mg.pov.lt/profilehooks/