A profile function decorator. Writes profile to <functionname>.profile. Inspect the profile with runsnakerun or the like.

profileit.py

import cProfile
from functools import wraps


def profile(func):
    @wraps(func)
    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
        cProfile.runctx(
            'result = func(*args, **kwargs)',
            globals(),
            locals(),
            filename='%s.profile' % func.__name__,
            )
        return locals()['result']
    return wrapper