Make the --profile flag obsolete. Will be removed in Pylint 1.6.

3 files changed, 10 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 88ed860..8fcb2ea 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -261,7 +261,9 @@ ChangeLog for Pylint
       as a special case for the reversed builtin. This will happen
       shortly in the future.
 
-    * --comment flag was obsoleted and it will be removed in Pylint 1.6.
+    * --comment flag is obsoleted and it will be removed in Pylint 1.6.
+
+    * --profile flag is obsoleted and it will be removed in Pylint 1.6.
       
 
 
diff --git a/pylint/lint.py b/pylint/lint.py
index 0bc3234..16913f4 100644
--- a/pylint/lint.py
+++ b/pylint/lint.py
@@ -1221,10 +1221,7 @@ group are mutually exclusive.'),
                        'disabled and only messages emitted by the porting '
                        'checker will be displayed'}),
 
-            ('profile',
-             {'type' : 'yn', 'metavar' : '<y_or_n>',
-              'default': False, 'hide': True,
-              'help' : 'Profiled execution.'}),
+            ('profile', utils.deprecated_option(opt_type='yn')),
 
             ), option_groups=self.option_groups, pylintrc=self._rcfile)
         # register standard checkers
@@ -1309,17 +1306,7 @@ group are mutually exclusive.'),
         # insert current working directory to the python path to have a correct
         # behaviour
         with fix_import_path(args):
-            if self.linter.config.profile:
-                print('** profiled run', file=sys.stderr)
-                import cProfile, pstats
-                cProfile.runctx('linter.check(%r)' % args, globals(), locals(),
-                                'stones.prof')
-                data = pstats.Stats('stones.prof')
-                data.strip_dirs()
-                data.sort_stats('time', 'calls')
-                data.print_stats(30)
-            else:
-                linter.check(args)
+            linter.check(args)
             linter.generate_reports()
         if exit:
             sys.exit(self.linter.msg_status)
diff --git a/pylint/test/test_self.py b/pylint/test/test_self.py
index 618d232..d1c9238 100644
--- a/pylint/test/test_self.py
+++ b/pylint/test/test_self.py
@@ -169,6 +169,11 @@ class RunTC(unittest.TestCase):
                     "slated for removal in Pylint 1.6")
         self._test_deprecated_options("--include-ids=y", expected)
 
+    def test_deprecated_options_profile(self):
+        expected = ("option --profile is obsoleted and it is "
+                    "slated for removal in Pylint 1.6")
+        self._test_deprecated_options("--profile=y", expected)
+
     def test_help_message_option(self):
         self._runtest(['--help-msg', 'W0101'], code=0)