Debugging In Python

After an afternoon shift in the shop on Monday, I went into town to see Antonio Cavallo's presentation on debugging tools for Python.

He took us through four different examples and the different techniques used to debug them, in particular the use of the remote debugger, rpdb, to debug multi-threaded python applications, and gdb to debug calls to external C libraries. The latter was interesting because it revealed that the Python interpreter is written in C!.