[Python-Dev] Accepting PEP 445

Antonio Cavallo a.cavallo at cavallinux.eu
Sun Jul 7 12:17:20 CEST 2013


Yes that is indeed a great news. 

Having to debug some binary only extension modules that will make my (rather selfish) life so much easier ;)

Thanks


On 7 Jul 2013, at 00:04, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2013/7/6 Antonio Cavallo <a.cavallo at cavallinux.eu>:
>> Could that remove the need for the --with-pydebug flag?
> 
> With the PEP 445, you still have to recompile Python with
> --with-debug, but you don't have to recompile Python extensions
> anymore. Debug checks on memory allocators are now implemented as
> hooks, instead of using C macros.
> 
> I see this as an improvment ;-)
> 
> Victor



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