Help getting profile information programmatically

[sawilla]

I need to get the cumulative process time for a function that returns
arguments and I'm having trouble doing so programmatically. After I
get the process time, I want to log it to a file, along with other
information. My problem is that I can't figure out how to do this
programmatically in a good way. I see that the cProfile module has the
method "getstats" which returns a list with the information I need but
I don't see how I can access it.

Here is some pseudocode showing what I'm hoping to do:

# Get a cProfile object with the profile information of my function.
# This syntax doesn't work and this is the first part I need help
with.
p = cProfile.run('(a,b,c)=myFunc(x,y,z)')

# Get the process time. The timeit.clock() function would give me
process time
# but it doesn't allow me to access the return arguments afterward so
I can't use it.
# The syntax of the next line doesn't work but this is an example of
what I hope to do.
top_entry = p.getstats()[0]
cum_time = top_entry[3]  # totaltime

# Now, log all this info to a CSV file. (No help needed here.)
csv_file.writerow([a,b,c,x,y,z,cum_time])

Once this works, I will wrap the above code in a loop which iterates
through thousands of combinations of the parameters x,y,z.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Reg