Whats wrong with:
>>> sysconfig.get_config_var('Py_DEBUG')
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Nir
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I created the issue "Add sys.debug_build public variable to check if
> Python was compiled in debug mode": http://bugs.python.org/issue25256
>
> I would like to add an obvious way to check if Python was compiled in
> debug mode, instead of having hacks/tips to check it. On the Internet,
> I found various recipes to check if Python is compiled is debug mode.
> Sadly, some of them are not portable. For example, 3 different checks
> are proposed on StackOverflow but 2 of them are specific to Windows:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/646518/python-how-to-detect-debug-interpreter
>
> Even if the exact impact of a debug build depends on the Python
> implementation and the Python version, we can use it to have the same
> behaviour on all Python implementations. For example, the warnings
> module shows warnings by default if Python is compiled in debug mode:
> Extract of my patch:
>
> - if hasattr(sys, 'gettotalrefcount'):
> + if sys.debug_build:
> resource_action = "always"
> else:
> resource_action = "ignore"
>
> Alternative: Add a new sys.implementation.debug_build flag. Problem:
> extending sys.implementation requires a new PEP, and I don't think
> that debug_build fits into this object.
>
> Berker Peksag likes the idea.
>
> Serhiy Storchaka dislike the new flag: "I don't like this. The sys
> module is one of most used module, but it has too many members, and
> adding yet one makes the situation worse." (sys has 81 symbols)
> "Checking for debug mode is not often needed, and mainly in tests.
> Current way ``hasattr(sys, 'gettotalrefcount')`` works good. You also
> can check ``'d' in sys.abiflags`` if it looks cleaner to you. Or add a
> member to test.support."
>
> The name "debug_build" comes from the existing
> sysconfig.is_python_build() function. There is a sys.flags.debug flag,
> so "sys.debug" can be confusing. I prefer to attach the "build"
> suffix.
>
> First I proposed a function sys.is_debug_build(), but a flag is
> simpler than a function. There is not need to compute a version it's
> known at build time.
>
> What do you think? Should we add sys.debug_build?
>
> Victor
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