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Add a new -X dev option: "developer mode" #76224

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vstinner opened this issue Nov 16, 2017 · 7 comments
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Add a new -X dev option: "developer mode" #76224

vstinner opened this issue Nov 16, 2017 · 7 comments
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3.7 (EOL) end of life interpreter-core (Objects, Python, Grammar, and Parser dirs) type-feature A feature request or enhancement

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BPO 32043
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  • bpo-32043: New "developer mode": "-X dev" option #4413
  • bpo-32043: Rephrase -X dev documentation #4478
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    I propose to add a new "developer mode": a new "-X dev" command line option.

    In short:
    python3 -X dev script.py
    behaves as:
    PYTHONMALLOC=debug python3 -W default -X faulthandler script.py

    For the rationale, please see:
    https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-November/150514.html

    @vstinner vstinner added 3.7 (EOL) end of life interpreter-core (Objects, Python, Grammar, and Parser dirs) type-feature A feature request or enhancement labels Nov 16, 2017
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    I rewrote Py_Main() in bpo-32030 to make it very easy to implement this new feature.

    I wrote PR 4413 to implement -X dev.

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    New changeset ccb0442 by Victor Stinner in branch 'master':
    bpo-32043: New "developer mode": "-X dev" option (bpo-4413)
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    Antoine Pitrou asked me to document the performance and memory overhead of -X dev:

    https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-November/150578.html

    For example, I measured an increase of +50% on the peak memory usage (measured by tracemalloc) when running test_os.

    Antoine proposed:

    """Currently, developer mode adds negligible CPU time overhead, but can
    increase memory consumption significantly if many small objects are
    allocated. This is subject to change in the future."""

    https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-November/150579.html

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    I created bpo-32101: Add PYTHONDEVMODE=1 to enable the developer mode.

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    New changeset bc9b6e2 by Victor Stinner in branch 'master':
    bpo-32043: Rephrase -X dev documentation (bpo-4478)
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    While the discussion is not done, I close this issue to focus on other more specific issues.

    I completed the documentation and fixed warnings filters (bpo-32089). The option now also enables asyncio debug mode (bpo-32047).

    It was proposed to add an environment variable to enable the developer mode: see bpo-32101 ("Add PYTHONDEVMODE=1 to enable the developer mode").

    Note: I also fixed subprocess._args_from_interpreter_flags: bpo-32094.

    @ezio-melotti ezio-melotti transferred this issue from another repository Apr 10, 2022
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