In article <mailman.11570.1404702375.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's about it, yeah. I tend to find both strace and tcpdump rather > too spammy for most usage, so any time I reach for those tools, it's > usually with some tight filtering - and even that's not always > helpful.
Usually, when I fire up strace, it's because I'm looking for something specific. A common use case is, "I just edited this config file, but it doesn't seem to be having any effect". I'll do something like "strace -e file" and grep out all the open() calls. From there, it's trivial to verify that it is indeed reading my config file (or not). Or that there's other config files (/usr/share/whatever) that it's reading that I didn't even know existed, which might be overriding my own. Likewise for which libraries it's linking against, which executables it's running, etc. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
