You should use the pstats module to parse this file and extract information in user-friendly format from it. For example: import pstats p = pstats.Stats(‘thing.txt’) p.sort_stats(‘cumulative’).print_stats(10) It’s all in the documentation, of course. Go over the “instant user’s manual” in there, it explains everything.
-s only uses the keys found under sort_stats. calls (call count) cumulative (cumulative time) cumtime (cumulative time) file (file name) filename (file name) module (file name) ncalls (call count) pcalls (primitive call count) line (line number) name (function name) nfl (name/file/line) stdname (standard name) time (internal time) tottime (internal time) Here’s an example python -m … Read more
tottime is the total time spent in the function alone. cumtime is the total time spent in the function plus all functions that this function called. The two values is going to be the same if a function never calls anything else. For example, {waitKey} doesn’t appear to invoke anything else: 459 2.381 0.005 2.381 … Read more