Added the cProfile module. Based on lsprof (patch #1212837) by Brett Rosen and Ted Czotter. With further editing by Michael Hudson and myself. History in svn repo: http://codespeak.net/svn/user/arigo/hack/misc/lsprof * Module/_lsprof.c is the internal C module, Lib/cProfile.py a wrapper. * pstats.py updated to display cProfile's caller/callee timings if available. * setup.py and NEWS updated. * documentation updates in the profiler section: - explain the differences between the three profilers that we have now - profile and cProfile can use a unified documentation, like (c)Pickle - mention that hotshot is "for specialized usage" now - removed references to the "old profiler" that no longer exists * test updates: - extended test_profile to cover delicate cases like recursion - added tests for the caller/callee displays - added test_cProfile, performing the same tests for cProfile * TO-DO: - cProfile gives a nicer name to built-in, particularly built-in methods, which could be backported to profile. - not tested on Windows recently!

--- a/setup.py	Wed Feb 08 11:36:09 2006 +0000
+++ b/setup.py	Wed Feb 08 12:53:56 2006 +0000
@@ -328,7 +328,6 @@
         # Some modules that are normally always on:
         exts.append( Extension('regex', ['regexmodule.c', 'regexpr.c']) )
 
-        exts.append( Extension('_hotshot', ['_hotshot.c']) )
         exts.append( Extension('_weakref', ['_weakref.c']) )
 
         # array objects
@@ -363,6 +362,9 @@
         exts.append( Extension("functional", ["functionalmodule.c"]) )
         # Python C API test module
         exts.append( Extension('_testcapi', ['_testcapimodule.c']) )
+        # profilers (_lsprof is for cProfile.py)
+        exts.append( Extension('_hotshot', ['_hotshot.c']) )
+        exts.append( Extension('_lsprof', ['_lsprof.c', 'rotatingtree.c']) )
         # static Unicode character database
         if have_unicode:
             exts.append( Extension('unicodedata', ['unicodedata.c']) )