Profiling in Python: Who called the function?

Question

I\'m profiling in Python using cProfile. I found a function that takes a lot of CPU time. How do I find out which function is calling this heavy function the mo

Answer 1

inspect.stack() will give you the current caller stack.

Answer 2

Pycscope does this. I just found it today, so I can't speak to how good it is, but the few examples I've tried have been pretty good (though not perfect).

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycscope/

You would use this to generate a cscope file and then a cscope plugin from an editor, VIM specifically. I tried using it with vanilla cscope, it seems that plain cscope gets confused.