cpython/Lib/test/test_profile.py
Guido van Rossum f137f75ab8 Hopefully fix the profiler right. Add a test suite that checks that
it deals correctly with some anomalous cases; according to this test
suite I've fixed it right.

The anomalous cases had to do with 'exception' events: these aren't
generated when they would be most helpful, and the profiler has to
work hard to recover the right information.  The problems occur when C
code (such as hasattr(), which is used as the example here) calls back
into Python code and clears an exception raised by that Python code.
Consider this example:

    def foo():
        hasattr(obj, "bar")

Where obj is an instance from a class like this:

    class C:
        def __getattr__(self, name):
            raise AttributeError

The profiler sees the following sequence of events:

    call (foo)
    call (__getattr__)
    exception (in __getattr__)
    return (from foo)

Previously, the profiler would assume the return event returned from
__getattr__. An if statement checking for this condition and raising
an exception was commented out...  This version does the right thing.
2001-10-04 00:58:24 +00:00

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"""Test suite for the profile module."""
import profile
# In order to have reproducible time, we simulate a timer in the global
# variable 'ticks', which represents simulated time in milliseconds.
# (We can't use a helper function increment the timer since it would be
# included in the profile and would appear to consume all the time.)
ticks = 0
def test_main():
global ticks
ticks = 0
prof = profile.Profile(timer)
prof.runctx("testfunc()", globals(), globals())
prof.print_stats()
def timer():
return ticks*0.001
def testfunc():
# 1 call
# 1000 ticks total: 400 ticks local, 600 ticks in subfunctions
global ticks
ticks += 199
helper() # 300
helper() # 300
ticks += 201
def helper():
# 2 calls
# 300 ticks total: 40 ticks local, 260 ticks in subfunctions
global ticks
ticks += 1
helper1() # 30
ticks += 3
helper1() # 30
ticks += 6
helper2() # 50
ticks += 5
helper2() # 50
ticks += 4
helper2() # 50
ticks += 7
helper2() # 50
ticks += 14
def helper1():
# 4 calls
# 30 ticks total: 29 ticks local, 1 tick in subfunctions
global ticks
ticks += 10
hasattr(C(), "foo")
ticks += 19
def helper2():
# 8 calls
# 50 ticks local: 39 ticks local, 11 ticks in subfunctions
global ticks
ticks += 11
hasattr(C(), "bar") # 1
ticks += 13
subhelper() # 10
ticks += 15
def subhelper():
# 8 calls
# 10 ticks total: 8 ticks local, 2 ticks in subfunctions
global ticks
ticks += 2
for i in range(2):
try:
C().foo # 1 x 2
except AttributeError:
ticks += 3 # 3 x 2
class C:
def __getattr__(self, name):
# 28 calls
# 1 tick, local
global ticks
ticks += 1
raise AttributeError
if __name__ == "__main__":
test_main()