API for outputting different formats from CPython sampling profiler

Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

CPython 3.15 has statistical sampling profiler which currently only supports outputting

1. pstats https://docs.python.org/3.15/library/profile.html#pstats.Stats
2. collapsed format for flamegraphs https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/8d5c3341c538cd1a4192ca8a1536b2eed4b98c69/Lib/profiling/sampling/stack_collector.py#L24

Since it's still an early stage for the sampling profiler, I thought it would be nice to initiate discussion around how to support multiple different formats from the profiler.

1. pprof
2. OTel

are the formats that could potentially be added, but supporting those from CPython would introduce dependencies that might complicate building/testing and distributing CPython.

I'd like to suggest that CPython has an interface to support 3rd party collectors. What do you think?

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

I have already discussed this feature proposal on Discourse

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

https://discuss.python.org/t/pre-pep-api-for-outputting-different-formats-from-cpython-sampling-profiler/103490

Comienza leyendo Lib/profiling/sampling/stack_collector.py y el manejo existente de pstats y collapsed-format al que se hace referencia en el issue. Revisa la discusión enlazada de Discourse antes de proponer una interfaz para collectors de terceros; para darlo por terminado se necesitarían una API acordada, límites claros de los formatos compatibles y un plan para las restricciones de compilación, pruebas y distribución de CPython.