http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-December/198141.html
wherein Tim gently corrects my brash guess that Python lists are
pointer-linked.
The example's linearly-constructed list is allocated by doubling storage,
copying & freeing (cf realloc).
The result that the process virtual memo
By now, you have probably found an IDE that gives you satisfactory
debugging.
I think your original problem was trying to use an emacs shell (M-x shell)
to run Python interpreter.
But the emacs Python mode works a whole better than Python in a dumb
terminal.
Have you tried the following?
-- open P