florian, matthew and andi created mr. bent, a

framework for allowing profile data to be collected in a Python application and viewed at different logical levels. The three concepts involved are a plugin, a piece of code that profiles an application, a context, a logical block of code for which you want reporting data, and a filter, a way of getting fine-grained information on where the results for a context came from.

see http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mr.bent/  for more information about it.  the name was inspired by the "real" mr. bent, btw.

also, collective.performancecolouriser was created as a first example package on how to make use of mr. bent and his numbers...