diff -r 5d70ac83d104 Lib/cProfile.py
--- a/Lib/cProfile.py	Thu Jul 24 12:44:07 2014 +0200
+++ b/Lib/cProfile.py	Sat Jul 26 02:06:40 2014 +0400
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 
 import _lsprof
 import profile as _pyprofile
+import runpy
 
 # ____________________________________________________________
 # Simple interface
@@ -123,7 +124,7 @@
 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",
@@ -131,16 +132,23 @@
     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="Module name to profile. Can be used as alternative to script path",
+        default=None)
 
-    if not sys.argv[1:]:
+    (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
+
+    if not sys.argv[1:] and not options.module or (args and options.module):
         parser.print_usage()
         sys.exit(2)
 
-    (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 = runpy.run_module(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')