How to use Python Profiler

The simplest way to profile a python program is to run:

python -m cProfile --sort cumulative youprogram.py

The other sorting options are:

calls	call count
cumulative	cumulative time
file	file name
module	file name
pcalls	primitive call count
line	line number
name	function name
nfl	name/file/line
stdname	standard name
time	internal time

The profiling results are dumped to console. Use

python -m cProfile --sort cumulative youprogram.py > profile.txt

to forward all console output to profile.txt file.