From fc1ecc6e54f4bc406f872f22f492b52c5baba4f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Plangger <planrichi@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 10:24:39 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] print a more verbose error message if the profile is empty

---
 vmprof/cli.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/vmprof/cli.py b/vmprof/cli.py
index 0568bd28..086ab4d4 100644
--- a/vmprof/cli.py
+++ b/vmprof/cli.py
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ def get_option(self, name, type, default=None):
 def show(stats):
     p = stats.top_profile()
     if not p:
-        print("no stats")
+        print("No stats, profile is empty!\nDid you program run long enough (more than 1 second)?")
         return
 
     p.sort(key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True)