[Python-Dev] News of the faulthandler project

[Reid Kleckner]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Victor Stinner
<victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:
>  - SIGABRT is not handled

Why not?  That seems useful for debugging assertion failures, although
most C code in Python raises exceptions rather than asserting.

I'm guessing it's because it aborts the process after printing the
backtrace.  You could just clear the signal handler before aborting.

Reid