I see advice on how to debug a python module that hangs up the process

[Oleg A. Paraschenko]

Hello JD,

JD <lists at webcrunchers.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.223.1071608597.9307.python-list at python.org>...
> 
> How should I approach debugging this? Are there Python tools? Or should 
> I
> use gdb? ktrace? systrace? 

I suggest to send process a signal that generates core (ABRT, SEGV or similar)

Then start gdb as usual to debug coredump:

gdb ..path..to..python core

In gdb. use command like "where" to understand what happens.

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Oleg