Profile decorator Used for profiling a function. The generated profile can be viewed with: http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/runsnakerun/

gistfile1.py

import cProfile
import time

def profile_this(fn):
    def profiled_fn(*args, **kwargs):
        fpath = "%s-%s.profile" % (fn.__name__, round(time.time()))
        prof = cProfile.Profile()
        ret = prof.runcall(fn, *args, **kwargs)
        prof.dump_stats(fpath)
        return ret
    return profiled_fn