profile.run won't run!

[Nick Perkins]

"Rainer Deyke" <root at rainerdeyke.com> wrote in message
news:24gW6.284794$oc7.18522490 at news2.rdc2.tx.home.com...
> ...
>   import __main__
>   __main__.solve_problem = solve_problem
>   profile.run('solve_problem')

Thanks, the profiler actually runs, now!

but...
The broblem is that it seems not to actually execute the function...

..here is a simpler script that shows what i mean...


--BEGIN SCRIPT
import time, profile

def solve_problem():
    start = time.time()
    print 'SOLVING PROBLEM...'
    x=0
    for i in range(10**3):
        for j in range(10**3):
            x = i + j
    print x
    print 'DONE in %.2f seconds'%(time.time()-start)


from pprint import pprint as pp
print 'globals:'
pp (globals())
print
print 'locals:'
pp (locals())


print 'direct:'
solve_problem()

import __main__
__main__.solve_problem = solve_problem

print 'profiled:'
profile.run('solve_problem')

--END SCRIPT

..which produces ..


--BEGIN OUTPUT
globals:
{'__builtins__': <module '__builtin__' (built-in)>,
 '__doc__': None,
 '__name__': '__main__',
 'pp': <function pprint at 00EBD61C>,
 'profile': <module 'profile' from 'c:\python21\lib\profile.pyc'>,
 'pywin': <module 'pywin' from 'c:\python21\pythonwin\pywin\__init__.pyc'>,
 'solve_problem': <function solve_problem at 00EBB97C>,
 'time': <module 'time' (built-in)>}

locals:
{'__builtins__': <module '__builtin__' (built-in)>,
 '__doc__': None,
 '__name__': '__main__',
 'pp': <function pprint at 00EBD61C>,
 'profile': <module 'profile' from 'c:\python21\lib\profile.pyc'>,
 'pywin': <module 'pywin' from 'c:\python21\pythonwin\pywin\__init__.pyc'>,
 'solve_problem': <function solve_problem at 00EBB97C>,
 'time': <module 'time' (built-in)>}
direct:
SOLVING PROBLEM...
1998
DONE in 1.75 seconds
profiled:
         2 function calls in 0.029 CPU seconds

   Ordered by: standard name

   ncalls  tottime  percall  cumtime  percall filename:lineno(function)
        1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 <string>:1(?)
        0    0.000             0.000          profile:0(profiler)
        1    0.029    0.029    0.029    0.029 profile:0(solve_problem)




.. the profile.run(..)  seems to have not actually called the function.
There is no output (which might be re-directed, i suppose),
but more importantly, not enough time elapsed for the fn to have been
called.

.. i am stumped.  what is going on?