[Python-ideas] Allow Profile() to be used as a context manager

[Yuval Greenfield]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:36 AM, David Townshend <aquavitae69 at gmail.com>wrote:

> [...]
> Any major objections to this?
>
>

 At first this sounded like a good idea but 2 things pop to mind:


   1. How does one get the pstat profiling output from the context manager?
   Will printing out the results be the only option?
   2. Usually when I profile I don't want to touch the code at all so
   eventually if I'll use this context manager it'll be more akin to


    with profile.Profiler():
        main()

Which isn't much of a win over

    profile.run('main()')


Now if you're talking about a reentrant profiler, that's interesting:

    profiler = profile.Profiler()

    while is_working:
        with profiler:
            do_hard_task()

    do_a_hard_but_i_dont_care_now_task()

    with profiler:
        do_a_diff_hard_task()


and then I can call whatever method is there to get the pstat. If this is
the vision then it sounds awesome.


Yuval
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