[issue25726] sys.setprofile / sys.getprofile asymetry
Georg Brandl
report at bugs.python.org
Sat Feb 13 06:58:36 EST 2016
Georg Brandl added the comment:
Ok, this is because internally, sys.setprofile (or to be exact, PyEval_SetProfile) sets two things: a C function, and a "profileobj", which is the argument to setprofile().
sys.setprofile sets the C function to the "profile_trampoline", which supports calling Python profile functions. The profileobj is the Python profile function.
The C profiler sets the C function to a different callback, and uses the profileobj for storing the reference to the Profiler object.
sys.getprofile just returns the profileobj, which means that you can't save/restore the profiler state with the two functions when using cProfile.
There is not much we can do here except for explicitly documenting this.
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