I'm new to cProfile.
I ran cProfile on my program and it spit out this:
ncalls tottime percall cumtime percall filename:lineno(function)
1 290.732 290.732 313.069 313.069 newad.py:1(<module>)
The first line of newad.py is:
1 from datetime import date
Is this line supposed to take this much time? What can I do instead?
cProfile is just showing you the time spent in that module. The line number seems to just indicate the first statement processed in that module - because you have a multiline docstring, it shows the last line of the docstring.
"""
Test module for cProfile stats
"""
import time
def wait(t):
time.sleep(t)
wait(5)
Gives:
$ python -m cProfile test.py
4 function calls in 5.002 seconds
Ordered by: standard name
ncalls tottime percall cumtime percall filename:lineno(function)
1 0.000 0.000 5.001 5.001 test.py:10(wait)
1 0.001 0.001 5.002 5.002 test.py:4(<module>)
1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 {method 'disable' of '_lsprof.Profiler' objects}
1 5.001 5.001 5.001 5.001 {time.sleep}
Note the first line shows the time spent in the funciton wait while the second line shows the time spent in the module.