Profiling Python Apps on Mac?

[Philip Semanchuk]

On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:14 PM, RGK wrote:

> I'm writing a python app on a Mac (in Eclipse + PyDev w/ Python2.5 &  
> wxPython under OSX 10.4)
>
> As I make program architecture decisions, it would be nice to be  
> able to profile the choices.  Should I add that extra thread?  Is  
> this big-assed xml object I just created horribly bloated or kind of  
> ordinary.
>
> Is there anything out there I should look into to if I want to see  
> how those things are affecting my app?   The closest I have is the  
> widget iStat, but it's a very static low resolution view of what's  
> really going on.

Is there any reason that this wouldn't work?

http://docs.python.org/library/hotshot.html