Simple way of turning -DNDEBUG off in distutils

[Michael Hudson]

rick_muller at yahoo.com (Rick Muller) writes:

> Is there a simple way of toggling the -DNDEBUG flag in the distutils
> builds? I just realized that all of my assert statements were being
> skipped because by default the distutils put in -DNDEBUG.

Well, one way is to build against a debug build of Python.  There
might be some other way, but I don't know it...

Cheers,
mwh

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