hprof profiling utilities
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The pupose of this package is to provide a drop in replacement for the
non-free profile and pstats modules in the Python 2.x standard
library.

Consequently this package provides a wrapper that uses the hotshot
profiler to mimic the behaviour of profile and pstats.  These are
provided in the hprofile and hpstats modules respectively.

Additionally the hstats module is provided.  This is a module that can
read and analyse profiling data created by hotshot.  This module makes
the loading of the hotshot data faster by about 25%-30% compared to
the hotshot.stats module since it does not use the old profile and
pstats modules.


Availability
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The project is hosted at Savannah under the project name pyprof.  The
latest version can be found there.  The project page can consequently
be found at http://www.savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pyprof.


Bugs and contact information
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Please use the project page at
http://www.savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pyprof for any hints, tips,
suggestions, to share your experience or to report bugs.


About
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This package was made by Floris Bruynooghe under the Google Summer of
Code (http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html) project.  The
mentoring organisation was the Python Software Foundation
(http://www.python.org/psf/).  Many thanks go to Brett Cannon for
mentoring the project.