The bagpipe didn't say "no" (*), so here's a main program script useful for

running an application under hotshot's control.  Only slightly embellished
from what Walter Dörwald posted to python-dev.

(*) http://www.icdc.com/~roadkill/silverstein/turtle.html

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
+
+"""
+Run a Python script under hotshot's control.
+
+Adapted from a posting on python-dev by Walter Dörwald
+
+usage %prog [ %prog args ] filename [ filename args ]
+
+Any arguments after the filename are used as sys.argv for the filename.
+"""
+
+import sys
+import optparse
+import os
+import hotshot
+import hotshot.stats
+
+PROFILE = "hotshot.prof"
+
+def run_hotshot(filename, profile, args):
+    prof = hotshot.Profile(profile)
+    sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(filename))
+    sys.argv = [filename] + args
+    prof.run("execfile(%r)" % filename)
+    prof.close()
+    stats = hotshot.stats.load(profile)
+    stats.sort_stats("time", "calls")
+
+    # print_stats uses unadorned print statements, so the only way
+    # to force output to stderr is to reassign sys.stdout temporarily
+    save_stdout = sys.stdout
+    sys.stdout = sys.stderr
+    stats.print_stats()
+    sys.stdout = save_stdout
+
+    return 0
+
+def main(args):
+    parser = optparse.OptionParser(__doc__)
+    parser.add_option("-p", "--profile", action="store", default=PROFILE,
+                      dest="profile", help='Specify profile file to use')
+    (options, args) = parser.parse_args(args)
+
+    if len(args) == 0:
+        parser.print_help("missing script to execute")
+        return 1
+
+    filename = args[0]
+    return run_hotshot(filename, options.profile, args[1:])
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))