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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