Python call tree tool?

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Tue Apr 23 12:30:04 EDT 2002


Robin Becker <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> writes:

> I searched in vain for a tool that can create a call tree or  inverted
> call tree for python modules/packages. It seems inconceivable that the
> Python community hasn't created such a tool so I must be looking in the
> wrong places. 
> 
> Any one know where such a beast is?

There's Tools/script/trace.py which might or might not do what you
want.  Apparently it's in a bit of a sorry state, but I don't really
know how/why.

Cheers,
M.

-- 
  ... so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory
  objects into which any random function may write random values
  without having a clue where they point, has _not_ been debunked as
  the sheer idiocy it really is.        -- Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp



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