pstats gives "ValueError: bad marshal data (unknown type code)"

[certik]

This works:

$ python -m line_profiler my.lprof > log

But this fails:

$ python -m pstats my.lprof 
ValueError: bad marshal data (unknown type code)
Welcome to the profile statistics browser.
%

It should work according to the documentation:

$ python -m pstats script_to_profile.py.prof

I also tried pyprof2calltree and it gives the same exception.

I am using Python 3.6 with Conda 4.5.0 on Ubuntu 16.04.

[rkern]

No, the .lprof files from the line-profiler are not the same thing as the .prof files. The latter are from the regular function profiler, not the line-profiler.

kernprof also works with cProfile, its third-party incarnation lsprof, or the pure-Python profile module depending on what is available.