trying to profile the code with no success yet.

.gitignore

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+.idea/
+        ../.ipynb_checkpoints/
+        ../Test_case/frames_BP/
+        ../Test_case/results/
+        __pycache__/
+        output.pstats
+        program.prof
+        ../profiler.ipynb

profiler.ipynb

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+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 13,
+   "id": "fd1b332a-1e53-427f-ab05-85e51f824016",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "data": {
+      "text/plain": [
+       "'/mnt/c/Users/sinad/OneDrive - Georgia Institute of Technology/BMI 500 Bio Informatics/gitPractice/BPimageTranscribe/code'"
+      ]
+     },
+     "execution_count": 13,
+     "metadata": {},
+     "output_type": "execute_result"
+    }
+   ],
+   "source": [
+    "pwd"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 14,
+   "id": "d8d079b1-eec8-468b-958c-b24ee3a3fe7a",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "import cProfile\n",
+    "import re"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 15,
+   "id": "a2f397d1-35f0-4637-9a93-708887479278",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "name": "stdout",
+     "output_type": "stream",
+     "text": [
+      "         6 function calls in 0.000 seconds\n",
+      "\n",
+      "   Ordered by: standard name\n",
+      "\n",
+      "   ncalls  tottime  percall  cumtime  percall filename:lineno(function)\n",
+      "        1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 <string>:1(<module>)\n",
+      "        1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 re.py:250(compile)\n",
+      "        1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 re.py:289(_compile)\n",
+      "        1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 {built-in method builtins.exec}\n",
+      "        1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 {built-in method builtins.isinstance}\n",
+      "        1    0.000    0.000    0.000    0.000 {method 'disable' of '_lsprof.Profiler' objects}\n",
+      "\n",
+      "\n"
+     ]
+    }
+   ],
+   "source": [
+    "cProfile.run('re.compile(\"foo|bar\")')"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "857557ec-2e21-44dd-a36d-32a59178dce0",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": []
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)",
+   "language": "python",
+   "name": "python3"
+  },
+  "language_info": {
+   "codemirror_mode": {
+    "name": "ipython",
+    "version": 3
+   },
+   "file_extension": ".py",
+   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
+   "name": "python",
+   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
+   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
+   "version": "3.8.6"
+  }
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 5
+}