Advanced Python Programming

Profile line by line with line_profiler

Now that we know which function we have to optimize, we can use the line_profiler module that provides information on how time is spent in a line-by-line fashion. This is very useful in situations where it's difficult to determine which statements are costly. The line_profiler module is a third-party module that is available on the Python Package Index and can be installed by following the instructions at https://github.com/rkern/line_profiler.

In order to use line_profiler, we need to apply a @profile decorator to the functions we intend to monitor. Note that you don't have to import the profile function from another module as it gets injected in the global namespace when running the kernprof.py profiling ...