Tool for analysing and stepping through code?

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Tool for analysing and stepping through code?

Recently I came across a tool which could analyse running python code and produced a visual representation similar to a code editor to allow one to step through the different parts of the code, seeing how many times each part was called, execution time, etc.

I can't find the reference to it again. Would anyone know what it might be?

NetBeans with python plug-in?

Vitaly Dyatlov 2009-08-29 08:42:34

Nope, although that looks good, it was IIRC a stand-alone tool not an IDE extension.

digitala 2009-08-29 15:12:58

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cProfile or Hotshot.

James 2009-08-29 08:44:08

No, it was neither of those. It may have used those libraries, but it gave a very handy visual interface which looked like highlighted code in an editor.

digitala 2009-08-29 09:12:42

have a look at the David's/f3lix's answer I think thats what you are looking for.

James 2009-08-29 09:13:54

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RunSnakeRun is user interface for cProfile/Hotshot (see James' answer), which also provides a visualization of the profiling data.

Another useful link might be the link to the PyCon2009 Talk Introduction to Python Profiling (#65)

f3lix 2009-08-29 08:53:20

Maybe Python Call Graph?

sunqiang 2009-08-29 12:55:05

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Found what I was looking for: Code Investigator

CodeInvestigator is a tracing tool for Python programs. All run time information is recorded. Read your code together with its run time details in a Firefox browser. See what your program did when it ran.

digitala 2009-08-29 23:37:54

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