bpo-21862: Add -m option to cProfile for profiling modules (#4297)

* bpo-21862: Add -m option to cProfile for profiling modules

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/profile.rst b/Doc/library/profile.rst
index 68f24ab..48426a0 100644
--- a/Doc/library/profile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/profile.rst
@@ -123,13 +123,18 @@ them in various ways.
 The file :mod:`cProfile` can also be invoked as a script to profile another
 script.  For example::
 
-   python -m cProfile [-o output_file] [-s sort_order] myscript.py
+   python -m cProfile [-o output_file] [-s sort_order] (-m module | myscript.py)
 
 ``-o`` writes the profile results to a file instead of to stdout
 
 ``-s`` specifies one of the :func:`~pstats.Stats.sort_stats` sort values to sort
 the output by. This only applies when ``-o`` is not supplied.
 
+``-m`` specifies that a module is being profiled instead of a script.
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.7
+      Added the ``-m`` option.
+
 The :mod:`pstats` module's :class:`~pstats.Stats` class has a variety of methods
 for manipulating and printing the data saved into a profile results file::