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Consider this transcript:
>>> cProfile.run("import time; time.sleep(1)")
 4 function calls in 1.012 CPU seconds
 Ordered by: standard name
 ncalls tottime percall cumtime percall filename:lineno(function)
 1 0.011 0.011 1.012 1.012 <string>:1(<module>)
 1 0.000 0.000 1.012 1.012 {built-in method exec}
 1 1.001 1.001 1.001 1.001 {built-in method sleep}
 1 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 {method 'disable' of '_lsprof.Profiler' objects}
>>> 
It is not the case that the profiled code uses >1 CPU seconds. It spends the entire time sleeping. The default timer for cProfile is a wallclock timer. The output should reflect this.