import cProfile from functools import wraps from typing import Any, TypeVar, Callable ReturnT = TypeVar('ReturnT') def profiled(func: Callable[..., ReturnT]) -> Callable[..., ReturnT]: """ This decorator should obviously be used only in a dev environment. It works best when surrounding a function that you expect to be called once. One strategy is to write a backend test and wrap the test case with the profiled decorator. You can run a single test case like this: # edit zerver/tests/test_external.py and place @profiled above the test case below ./tools/test-backend zerver.tests.test_external.RateLimitTests.test_ratelimit_decrease Then view the results like this: ./tools/show-profile-results test_ratelimit_decrease.profile """ @wraps(func) def wrapped_func(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> ReturnT: fn = func.__name__ + ".profile" prof = cProfile.Profile() retval = prof.runcall(func, *args, **kwargs) # type: ReturnT prof.dump_stats(fn) return retval return wrapped_func