Introduction To profilers

Python comes with its own code profilers built-in. There is the profile module and the cProfile module. The profile module is pure Python, but it will add a lot of overhead to anything we profile, so it’s usually recommended that we go with cProfile, which has a similar interface but is much faster.

Simple example of cProfile

We’re not going to go into a lot of detail about this module in this chapter, but let’s look at a couple of fun examples so we get a taste for what it can do.