Re: [Python-Dev] How to debug python crashes

2013-05-15 Thread Steve Dower
> From: Catalin Iacob > Hi Philippe, > > I don't have access to VS right now but out of my head what you need > to do is roughly outlined below. > > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Philippe Fremy > wrote: > > But what's the reason for releasing them ? If you need to recompile > > Python to use

Re: [Python-Dev] How to debug python crashes

2013-05-14 Thread Catalin Iacob
Hi Philippe, I don't have access to VS right now but out of my head what you need to do is roughly outlined below. On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Philippe Fremy wrote: > But what's the reason for releasing them ? If you need to recompile > Python to use them, that would be strange because they

Re: [Python-Dev] How to debug python crashes

2013-05-14 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, I don't know if it can help, but if you really don't know where your programcrash/hang occurs, you can use the faulthandler module: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/faulthandler It can be used to display te backtrace of all threads on an event like a signal or a timeout. It works with Python, b

Re: [Python-Dev] How to debug python crashes

2013-05-14 Thread Philippe Fremy
On 14/05/2013 14:49, Tim Golden wrote: > On 14/05/2013 13:32, Philippe Fremy wrote: >> I have a reproducable crash on Windows XP with Python 2.7 which I would >> like to investigate. I have Visual Studio 2008 installed and I >> downloaded the pdb files. However I could not find any instructions on

Re: [Python-Dev] How to debug python crashes

2013-05-14 Thread Tim Golden
On 14/05/2013 13:32, Philippe Fremy wrote: > I have a reproducable crash on Windows XP with Python 2.7 which I would > like to investigate. I have Visual Studio 2008 installed and I > downloaded the pdb files. However I could not find any instructions on > how to use them and was unsuccessful at ge

Re: [Python-Dev] How to debug python crashes

2013-05-14 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le Tue, 14 May 2013 14:32:27 +0200, Philippe Fremy a écrit : > Hi, > > I have a reproducable crash on Windows XP with Python 2.7 which I > would like to investigate. I have Visual Studio 2008 installed and I > downloaded the pdb files. However I could not find any instructions on > how to use the

[Python-Dev] How to debug python crashes

2013-05-14 Thread Philippe Fremy
Hi, I have a reproducable crash on Windows XP with Python 2.7 which I would like to investigate. I have Visual Studio 2008 installed and I downloaded the pdb files. However I could not find any instructions on how to use them and was unsuccessful at getting anything out of it. I checked the devel