[Python-Dev] cProfile with generator throwing

[Eyal Lotem]

Hi. It seems that cProfile does not support throwing exceptions into
generators properly, when an external timer routine is used.

The problem is that _lsprof.c: ptrace_enter_call assumes that there
are no exceptions set when it is called, which is not true when the
generator frame is being gen_send_ex'd to send an exception into it
(Maybe you could say that only CallExternalTimer assumes this, but I
am not sure).  This assumption causes its eventual call to
CallExternalTimer to discover that an error is set and assume that it
was caused by its own work (which it wasn't).

I am not sure what the right way to fix this is, so I cannot send a patch.
Here is a minimalist example to reproduce the bug:

>>> import cProfile
>>> import time
>>> p=cProfile.Profile(time.clock)
>>> def f():
...   yield 1
...
>>> p.run("f().throw(Exception())")
Exception exceptions.Exception: Exception() in <cProfile.Profile
object at 0xb7f5a304> ignored
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/cProfile.py", line 135, in run
    return self.runctx(cmd, dict, dict)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/cProfile.py", line 140, in runctx
    exec cmd in globals, locals
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in f
SystemError: error return without exception set