On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 11:44 AM Rob Cliffe via Python-Dev <python-dev@python.org> wrote: > > The documentation at > https://docs.python.org/3.2/library/profile.html > contains the sentence > For example, if your_integer_time_func() returns times measured in > thousands of seconds, you would construct the Profile instance as follows: > > "thousands of seconds" should ISTM be "thousandths of a second". > > There is essentially the same thing in the Python 2 docs at > https://docs.python.org/2/library/profile.html > viz. > For example, if the timer returns times measured in thousands of seconds, > the time unit would be .001. >
Python 3.2 is out of support, but the text is the same in current versions: https://docs.python.org/3/library/profile.html The wording in cProfile.Profile.__cod__ (as per help() etc) is: For custom timer functions returning integers, timeunit can be a float specifying a scale (i.e. how long each integer unit is, in seconds). Which supports your expectation that this should be "thousandths of a second". The wording currently in the docs appears to date all the way back to the introduction of the module in 2006, and other than formatting changes, hasn't been touched since. I think your wording would be correct. The file to change is Doc/library/profile.rst if you want to put in a patch. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/3THQKOLUTKEKCLNZMAJQDGKJFOFGJELJ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
