Strange Hotshot problem...

[Skip Montanaro]

    kefx> (Other than the older 'profile' module, which is probably even
    kefx> less likely to work well...)

The profile module might help, though since it's written in Python, it will
definitely run slower than the hotshot profiler (what about profile+psyco?).
If nothing else you should be able to get some call counts.  Another option
is to use the trace module to count executed lines.  If you submit a bug
report to SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/python and assign it
to Fred Drake (fdrake I believe) you'll at least be alerting the primary
author of the hotshot code.

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