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[3.15] gh-148932: Docs / `profiling.sampling` Windows limitations (GH-150272) by miss-islington · Pull Request #150330 · python/cpython · GitHub

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On Windows, the profiler requires administrative privileges or the
``SeDebugPrivilege`` privilege to read another process's memory.

*Note*: On Windows, ``python -m profiling.sampling`` fails inside a virtual
environment because the venv's ``python.exe`` is just a launcher shim that
re-executes the base interpreter as a child process. The shim itself isn't
a Python process and has no ``PyRuntime`` section to attach to. Instead,
run it from the global Python installation.

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