Currently, the result of profile.run can not easily sort by mutiple values with "sort" keyword argument. Following code will work with this patch.

>>> import cProfile
>>> cProfile.run('42**42', sort=('tottime', 'stdname'))
         3 function calls in 0.000 seconds

Ordered by: internal time, standard name

ncalls tottime percall cumtime percall filename:lineno(function)
1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 {built-in method builtins.exec}
1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 <string>:1(<module>)
1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 {method 'disable' of '_lsprof.Profiler' objects}

>>> import cProfile
>>> cProfile.run('42**42', sort=('tottime', 'stdname'))
         3 function calls in 0.000 seconds

Ordered by: internal time, standard name

ncalls tottime percall cumtime percall filename:lineno(function)
1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 {built-in method builtins.exec}
1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 <string>:1(<module>)
1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 {method 'disable' of '_lsprof.Profiler' objects}

>>> import profile
>>> profile.run('42**42', sort=('tottime', 'stdname'))
         4 function calls in 0.000 seconds

Ordered by: internal time, standard name

ncalls tottime percall cumtime percall filename:lineno(function)
1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 profile:0(42**42)
1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 :0(exec)
1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 :0(setprofile)
1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 <string>:1(<module>)
0 0.000 0.000 profile:0(profiler)

It would be good to add test for this.

Attached refactored patch with tests.

Patch looks good to me

@wdv4758h, do you think you will be able to resubmit the patch to Github? This would probably still be a useful addition and some review has already been done.

If not, I could pick up the patch and re-submit, but I don't want to take credit for your work unnecessarily.

The PR is ready for review.