https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c3d21e5a11769ae318cb5c4c96a381a22629654e commit: c3d21e5a11769ae318cb5c4c96a381a22629654e branch: 3.15 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: pablogsal <[email protected]> date: 2026-05-24T12:02:45Z summary:
[3.15] gh-148932: Docs / `profiling.sampling` Windows limitations (GH-150272) (#150330) gh-148932: Docs / `profiling.sampling` Windows limitations (GH-150272) (cherry picked from commit 0f32750fe26428de5e439803cf57f51847c81ce8) Co-authored-by: Eduardo Villalpando Mello <[email protected]> files: M Doc/library/profiling.sampling.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/profiling.sampling.rst b/Doc/library/profiling.sampling.rst index aeb1a429b58515..39b6ea4e31cde7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/profiling.sampling.rst +++ b/Doc/library/profiling.sampling.rst @@ -387,6 +387,11 @@ This requires one of: On Windows, the profiler requires administrative privileges or the ``SeDebugPrivilege`` privilege to read another process's memory. +*Note*: On Windows, ``python -m profiling.sampling`` fails inside a virtual +environment because the venv's ``python.exe`` is just a launcher shim that +re-executes the base interpreter as a child process. The shim itself isn't +a Python process and has no ``PyRuntime`` section to attach to. Instead, +run it from the global Python installation. Version compatibility --------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-checkins.python.org Member address: [email protected]
