This is the list of commands I used to read a list of files containing profiling data. It was run inside a ipython shell

gistfile1.py

import pstats

# in the ipython shell this returns a list
# containing the output of the shell command ls
# I generated many profile files, one per log parsed.
# all the file names were prefixed with parse_log
profiles = !ls parse_log*

# read the first file in the list
stats = pstats.Stats(profiles.pop())

# you can add more than one profile to the stats
# this is totally optional
for i in profiles:
    stats.add(i)

# this strips the directory information from the function name
stats.strip_dirs()

# sort by time
# available sort fields can be found here http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/pstats.py#l173
stats.sort_stats('time')
stats.print_stats()