Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm

Profiling in PyCharm

For this discussion, we will be considering the example that's included in the Chapter06/Profiling subfolder of this book's repository. This subfolder contains a main.py script, which provides the following code:

def custom_sum(n=1000000):    result = 0    for i in range(n):        result += i    return resultdef built_sum(n=1000000):    result = sum(range(n))    return resultif __name__ == '__main__':    print(custom_sum())    #print(built_sum())

As you can probably guess from the code, we will be comparing and contrasting the two ways of computing the sum of the integers going from one to a specific n (whose default value is 1,000,000). The first way (the custom_sum() function) is to loop through all the elements to be summed and add them to a ...