I am trying to run the code below at Python 2.7 GUI:
python -m cProfile -s time abc.py
However here is the error I have:
>>> python -m cProfile -s time abc.py
>>> ^
>>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Any idea how can I solve it?
You need to run this from the command line, not a GUI or the interactive Python prompt. Seeing the >>>
means you are on the interactive Python prompt.
On the command line a.k.a terminal window, change to the directory in which abc.py
is located and enter:
python -m cProfile -s time abc.py
I get this:
python -m cProfile -s time abc.py
2 function calls in 0.000 seconds
Ordered by: internal time
ncalls tottime percall cumtime percall filename:lineno(function)
1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 {method 'disable' of '_lsprof.Profiler' objects}
1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 abc.py:1(<module>)
The option -m
does this:
-m mod : run library module as a script (terminates option list)
The Python version is 2.7.12.
If you want to do it from the interactive prompt, probably the easiest way is to use IPython or Jupyter Notebook. Then you can do this:
[1] %run -m cProfile -s time abc.py