Fredrik Lundh wrote: > "Celine & Dave" wrote: > > >>What happens if I build Python with debug option >>(--with-pydebug)? Do I see any changes in my program >>output? What is --with-pydebug good for? > > > from the README: > > --with-pydebug: Enable additional debugging code to help track down > memory management problems. This allows printing a list of all > live objects when the interpreter terminates.
And that's why it's very useful for when developing Python extension modules. Not only does it help find reference count problems, --with-pydebug on, Python sometimes also complains earlier if you do "stupid" things in the C code. Or gives a helpful error message before crashing ;-) -- Gerhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
