Python debug libraries

[Robert Ferrell]

<quote who="Mike C. Fletcher">
> See my recent post...
>
> http://groups.google.ca/groups?q=debug+extension+win32+group:comp.lang.python&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=mailman.26.1065949224.2192.python-list%40python.org&rnum=2
>
> (all one line).  You probably don't want to debug *everything*, just
> your particular extension, and this recipe allows that fairly readily
> w/out requiring getting every single dependency built against debug
> Python (which can be a royal PITA).
>

I read the post, thanks.  Now I have a very novice question.  When is
msvccompiler.py used?  If I'm building my Python extensions in a MS Visual
Studio project, is that script used?

thanks,
-robert