How do I profile memory usage in Python?

Question

I\'ve recently become interested in algorithms and have begun exploring them by writing a naive implementation and then optimizing it in various ways.

I\'m already f

Answer 1

Disclosure:

• Applicable on Linux only
• Reports memory used by the current process as a whole, not individual functions within

But nice because of its simplicity:

import resource
def using(point=""):
    usage=resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF)
    return '''%s: usertime=%s systime=%s mem=%s mb
           '''%(point,usage[0],usage[1],
                usage[2]/1024.0 )

Just insert using("Label") where you want to see what's going on. For example

print(using("before"))
wrk = ["wasting mem"] * 1000000
print(using("after"))

>>> before: usertime=2.117053 systime=1.703466 mem=53.97265625 mb
>>> after: usertime=2.12023 systime=1.70708 mem=60.8828125 mb