def profile(ob):
    """
    Comment out this function to be able to use the line_profiler module. e.g. call:
    kernprof -l scripts/deploy_summariser.py --loglevel=10
    python -m line_profiler deploy_summariser.py.lprof > deploy_summariser.py.summary
    :param ob: object
    :return: object
    """
    return ob
