Python profiler usage with objects

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Ben Kaplan <bsk16 <at> case.edu> writes:

> First thin it does is evaluate foo(), which returns None. So you're calling
> profile.run(None)
> 
> There's  nothing special about profile.run- you have to hand it something to
> execute, not something already executed. Try calling
> Profile.run(doSomething) # no parenthesis for doSomething.

i'm reading your message more carefully, and so tried calling
profile.run(main), without any parens (and absorbing the
argument into the function's body for this test).  same error!?