Is there a visual profiler for Python? [closed]

I use cProfile now but I find it tedious to write pstats code just to query the statistics data.

I'm looking for a visual tool that shows me what my Python code is doing in terms of CPU time and memory allocation.

Some examples from the Java world are visualvm and JProfiler.

Does something like this exist?
Is there an IDE that does this?
Would dtrace help?

I know about KCachegrind for Linux, but I would prefer something that I can run on Windows/Mac without installing KDE.

Solution 1:

A friend and I have written a Python profile viewer called SnakeViz that runs in a web browser. If you are already successfully using RunSnakeRun SnakeViz may not add that much value, but SnakeViz is much easier to install.

Edit: SnakeViz supports Python 2 and 3 and works on all major systems.

Solution 2:

I'm only aware of RunSnakeRun.

There was also some talk some time ago about an integrated profiler in PyDev (Eclipse), but I don't know if that will ever see the light of day.

Update: Unfortunately it seems that RunSnakeRun is no longer maintained, and it does not support Python 3.

Solution 3:

I use gprof2dot.py. The result looks like this. I use those commands:

  python -m cProfile -o profile.dat my_program.py
  gprof2dot.py -f pstats profile.dat | dot -Tpng -o profile.png

You need graphviz and gprof2dot.py installed. You might like a convenience shell script.

Solution 4:

Spyder also provides a pretty nice gui for cProfile:

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Solution 5:

This person created a graphical profile, described here. Maybe you could use that as a starting point for your own work.