Python cProfile - most of time spent in method 'enable' of '_lsprof.Profiler'

Question

I am trying to perform some high-level profiling of a rather complex Python program. However, when using cProfile, almost all time is measured in:

{method 'enable' of '_lsProf.Profiler' objects}

It happens if I profile the whole program python -m cProfile ... as well as when I perform profiling within the Python code (with profile.enable()/.disable()/.create_stats...)

Any pointers to what I could be doing wrong?

Answer 1

It's because somewhere in your code you have something like

import cProfile
pr = cProfile.Profile()
pr.enable()

That's for manually saving the results or printing them, if you are calling the profiler like you said with python -m cProfile -o program.prof my_program.py you don't need to use cProfile inside the program.