diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 21145e0bb..b41a769db 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2007-01-18  Don Allingham  <don@gramps-project.org>
+	* src/DataViews/Utils.py: add profile function
+
 2007-01-18 Richard Taylor  <rjt-gramps@thegrindstone.me.uk>
         * src/NameDisplay.py: yet more optimisations for name display.
 
diff --git a/src/Utils.py b/src/Utils.py
index e064c8076..04c3a6d2a 100644
--- a/src/Utils.py
+++ b/src/Utils.py
@@ -1076,3 +1076,18 @@ def launch(prog_str,path):
     
         os.spawnvpe(os.P_NOWAIT, prog, prog_list, os.environ)
 
+def profile(func):
+    import hotshot, hotshot.stats
+
+    pr = hotshot.Profile('mystats.profile')
+    print "Start"
+    pr.runcall(func)
+    print "Finished"
+    pr.close()
+    print "Loading profile"
+    stats = hotshot.stats.load('mystats.profile')
+    print "done"
+    stats.strip_dirs()
+    stats.sort_stats('time','calls')
+    stats.print_stats(100)
+