A timer for profiling a Python function or snippet.

Release version:

$ pip install pyprof-timer

Development version:

$ pip install -e git+https://github.com/RussellLuo/pyprof-timer.git#egg=pyprof-timer

Sometimes, we only want to measure the execution time of partial snippets or a few functions, then we can inject all timing points into our code manually by leveraging Timer:

# manual_example.py

import time

from pyprof_timer import Timer, Tree


def main():
    t = Timer('sleep1', parent_name='main').start()
    time.sleep(1)
    t.stop()

    t = Timer('sleep2', parent_name='main').start()
    time.sleep(1.5)
    t.stop()

    print(Tree(Timer.root))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Run the example code:

$ python manual_example.py

and it will show you the profiling result:

2.503s  main
├── 1.001s  sleep1
└── 1.501s  sleep2

More commonly, chances are that we want to measure the execution time of an entry function and all its subfunctions. In this case, it's too tedious to do it manually, and we can leverage Profiler to inject all the timing points for us automatically:

# automatic_example.py

import time # line number 1

from pyprof_timer import Profiler, Tree


def f1():
    time.sleep(1)


def f2():
    time.sleep(1.5)


def show(p):
    print(Tree(p.root))


@Profiler(depth=2, on_disable=show)
def main():
    f1()
    f2()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Run the example code:

$ python automatic_example.py

and it will show you the profiling result:

2.506s  main  [automatic_example.py:18]
├── 1.001s  f1  [automatic_example.py:6]
│   └── 1.001s  <time.sleep>
└── 1.505s  f2  [automatic_example.py:10]
    └── 1.505s  <time.sleep>

NOTE: If the parameter depth is missing, the profiling output will be overwhelming and the runtime overhead will be high.

While you can do profiling on normal Python code, as a web developer, chances are that you will usually do profiling on web service code.

Currently supported web frameworks:

• Flask

For profiling web service code (involving web requests), check out examples.

MIT