It would be fairly easy to change format before dumping stats to disk,
but unfortunately Profile does not encapsulate it's run-time data and
changing its format would be a mess.

Of course, one can hack around that by turning Profile.stats into a
computed property, but that's hardly an acceptable solution.

I think it is worthwhile fixing the on-disk format, but as a long-tem
solution one may consider adding common (possibly iterator-based) API
to both profile and cProfile that pstats can use instead of accessing
internal data structures.

Creating an ABC for a standard Python profiler, seems to be a
worthwhile project that in the future may simplify plugging in 3rd
party profilers, but I don't have expertise to undertake such a
project.  That would require experience with multiple Python profilers
that I don't have.

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Georg Brandl <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> added the comment:
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> Alexander, how hard would it be to change the profile output?
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