Can you use gprof to profile python extensions?

[Konrad Hinsen]

Alex <cut_me_out at hotmail.com> writes:

> Hi.  I'd like to profile an extension I've written, and I'm having some
> trouble doing it.  The extension is statically linked into python
> (version 2.0), and I recompiled python with OPT= -g -pg
> However, running python does not produce a file called gmon.out.  Is it
> possible to use gprof with python, and if so, does anyone have a
> suggestion about what I might be doing wrong?

I have done this many times without any problem. Did you make sure that
you also use -pg during the final linking step? I think OPT=... doesn't
do this automatically.
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