Beyond cProfile for Python profiling cProfile is hardly the only way to profile a Python application. cProfile is certainly one of the most convenient ways, given that it’s bundled with Python.

Call time.perf_counter once before an action, once after, and obtain the difference between the two. This gives you an unobtrusive, low-overhead—if also unsophisticated—way to time code.

On Halloween 2018 a developer filed an issue in the GitHub repo for the VS Code Python extension, asking for the ability for users to "spin up multiple 'Python Interactive' windows." In August 2020, ...