obnam-viewprof.1

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.TH OBNAM-VIEWPROF 1
.SH NAME
obnam-viewprof \- show Python profiler output
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B obnam-viewprof
.I profile
.RI [ sort-order ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B obnam-viewprof
shows a plain text version of Python profiler output.
You can generate such output from Obnam by setting the
.B OBNAM_PROFILE
environment variable to a filename.
The profile will be written to that filename,
and you should give it to
.B obnam-viewprof
as an argument.
.PP
The
.I sort-order
argument defaults to
.B cumulative
and can be any of the orderings that the Python pstats library supports.
.PP
.B obnam-viewprof
is mainly useful for those developing
.BR obnam (1).
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR obnam (1).