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From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9s=20Delfino?= <adelfino@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2018 07:01:24 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] bpo-5978: Document that profiling needs cmd/function to
 return (GH-7938)
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<!-- issue-number: bpo-5978 -->
https://bugs.python.org/issue5978
<!-- /issue-number -->
(cherry picked from commit 937fb55d35373fd2701078251840b6be0465a6e1)

Co-authored-by: Andrés Delfino <adelfino@gmail.com>
---
 Doc/library/profile.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/library/profile.rst b/Doc/library/profile.rst
index 3f3c8a94856273..926d7757e8eb34 100644
--- a/Doc/library/profile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/profile.rst
@@ -297,6 +297,11 @@ functions:
 
       Profile ``func(*args, **kwargs)``
 
+Note that profiling will only work if the called command/function actually
+returns.  If the interpreter is terminated (e.g. via a :func:`sys.exit` call
+during the called command/function execution) no profiling results will be
+printed.
+
 .. _profile-stats:
 
 The :class:`Stats` Class