diff --git a/python/pyspark/context.py b/python/pyspark/context.py
index a2c76ad218069..1c9998c0ef4ff 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/context.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/context.py
@@ -808,7 +808,7 @@ def _add_profile(self, id, profileAcc):
 
     def show_profiles(self):
         """ Print the profile stats to stdout """
-        for i, (id, acc, showed) in self._profile_stats:
+        for i, (id, acc, showed) in enumerate(self._profile_stats):
             stats = acc.value
             if not showed and stats:
                 print "=" * 60
diff --git a/python/pyspark/tests.py b/python/pyspark/tests.py
index cd493a5f93b48..bf3cf94d5d083 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/tests.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/tests.py
@@ -615,16 +615,22 @@ def test_profiler(self):
         def heavy_foo(x):
             for i in range(1 << 20):
                 x = 1
-        rdd = self.sc.parallelize(range(100)).foreach(heavy_foo)
+        rdd = self.sc.parallelize(range(100))
+        rdd.foreach(heavy_foo)
         profiles = self.sc._profile_stats
         self.assertEqual(1, len(profiles))
-        id, acc, _ = profiles.pop()
+        id, acc, _ = profiles[0]
         stats = acc.value
         self.assertTrue(stats is not None)
         width, stat_list = stats.get_print_list([])
         func_names = [func_name for fname, n, func_name in stat_list]
         self.assertTrue("heavy_foo" in func_names)
 
+        self.sc.show_profiles()
+        d = tempfile.gettempdir()
+        self.sc.dump_profiles(d)
+        self.assertTrue("rdd_%d.pstats" % id in os.listdir(d))
+
 
 class TestSQL(PySparkTestCase):