cProfile and name spaces.

[Gelonida N]

Hi

I have following piece of code in file f1.py

##### f1.py starts here #######
def f():
pass

def main():
import profile
profile.run('f()')

if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
# ------ end of f1.py ----


executing f1.py works as expected.

Now I have a file f2.py
##### f2.py starts here #######
import f1
f1.main()
# ------ end of f2.py ----


If I run f2.py

I get the error message:
.. . . .

File "C:\Python26\lib\profile.py", line 70, in run
prof = prof.run(statement)
File "C:\Python26\lib\profile.py", line 456, in run
return self.runctx(cmd, dict, dict)
File "C:\Python26\lib\profile.py", line 462, in runctx
exec cmd in globals, locals
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'f' is not defined

So cProfile doesn't find my function f any more.

I can fix this by changing the code in f1.py to

profile.run('f1.f()')

However now I can't run f1.py anymore.


Is it intentional, that cProfile always uses the name space of the
initial module?

I consider it surprising especially as I did not find any mentioning of
this particularity in the documentation, which states:

cProfile.run(command[, 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. The following
is a typical output from such a call:

I'm using python 2.6.5

The reason why I don't profile at the top level is, that I do not want
to profile some parts of the code and as I want to
conditionally profile a cetain function within different contexts /
applications

WI have also difficulties implementing something like this in a module,
which
is not the main module.

arg1 = f(1)
arg2 = f2()
if do_profile:
CProfile('result = function_name(arg1, arg2)', fname)
else:
result = function_name(arg1, arg2)


Any tips / suggestions??