diff -r 3fa0d2b297c6 Lib/cProfile.py
--- a/Lib/cProfile.py	Tue Jun 24 13:03:54 2014 -0700
+++ b/Lib/cProfile.py	Wed Jun 25 05:19:47 2014 +0800
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
 def main():
     import os, sys
     from optparse import OptionParser
-    usage = "cProfile.py [-o output_file_path] [-s sort] scriptfile [arg] ..."
+    usage = "cProfile.py [-o output_file_path] [-s sort] [-m module] [scriptfile] [arg] ..."
     parser = OptionParser(usage=usage)
     parser.allow_interspersed_args = False
     parser.add_option('-o', '--outfile', dest="outfile",
@@ -131,6 +131,9 @@
     parser.add_option('-s', '--sort', dest="sort",
         help="Sort order when printing to stdout, based on pstats.Stats class",
         default=-1)
+    parser.add_option('-m', '--module', dest='module',
+        help="Profile the module",
+        default=None)
 
     if not sys.argv[1:]:
         parser.print_usage()
@@ -139,8 +142,11 @@
     (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
     sys.argv[:] = args
 
-    if len(args) > 0:
-        progname = args[0]
+    if len(args) > 0 or options.module:
+        if options.module:
+            progname = __import__(options.module).__file__
+        else:
+            progname = args[0]
         sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(progname))
         with open(progname, 'rb') as fp:
             code = compile(fp.read(), progname, 'exec')