Is there a visual profiler for Python?

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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