On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 16:08, Stefan Behnel >> While code generation alleviates the burden of tedious languages, it's also >> infinitely more complex, makes debugging very difficult and adds to >> prerequisite knowledge, among other drawbacks. > > You can use gdb for source level debugging of Cython code and cProfile to > profile it. Try that with C-API code.
I know I'm in the minority of committers being on Windows, but we do receive a good amount of reports and contributions from Windows users who dive into the C code. The outside contributors actually gave the strongest indication that we needed to move to VS2010. Visual Studio by itself makes debugging unbelievably easy, and with the Python Tools for VS plugin it even allows Visual Studio's built-in profiler to work. I know Windows is not on most people's maps, but if we have to scrap the debugger, that's another learning curve attachment to evaluate. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com