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From #3383 it'd be nice to have better detection of debug builds on Windows.
@zooba said on #3383 (comment)
Py_DEBUG
is never going to be inpyconfig.h
on Windows as the header is static (no autoconf) and debug/no-debug is determined using the preprocessor at build.
sys.gettotalrefcount
is protected byPy_REF_DEBUG
, which is not guaranteed to always be set whenPy_DEBUG
is set. That said,distutils.command.build
tests for it, so it's probably safe enough (or at least, there'll be twice as many bugs when it breaks...).The most reliable check is probably going to be:
any(x[0] == '_d.pyd' for x in imp.get_suffixes())The only issue with this is that the
imp
module is deprecated - Python 3.3 and later should really use:'_d.pyd' in importlib.machinery.EXTENSION_SUFFIXES