[Python-Dev] cProfile prints to stdout?

[Georg Brandl]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
> I just noticed that cProfile (like profile) prints to stdout.  Yuck.  I
> guess that's to be expected because the pstats module does the actual
> printing and it's used by both modules.  I'm willing to give up backward
> compatibility to achieve a little more sanity and flexibility here.  I
> propose rewriting the necessary bits to att a stream= keyword argument where
> necessary and using stream.write(...) or print >> stream, ... instead of the
> current bare print.  I'd prefer the default for the stream be sys.stderr as
> well.

Probably related:

http://python.org/sf/1235266

Cheers,
Georg