Running in Release or Debug version of the python interpreter?

[Raphael Zulliger]

Thanks for your answers!
I prefer the proposal of Thomas Heller by using a small helper function 
like this:

def IsDebugVersionRunning():
	import imp
	for suffix in imp.get_suffixes():
		if suffix[0] == '_d.pyd':
			return True
	return False

This works well for me. The
  _ctypes.__file__
trick didn't work for me - I guess I've done something wrong...

One more question: Under linux this doesn't seam to work - as there is 
always returned '.so' (not '_d.so') at least in my tests. Are there no 
debug/release version issues like on windows? doesn't import the 
python2.4-dbg (debian) binary different modules than python2.4?

Raphael Zulliger

Thomas Heller wrote:
> Raphael Zulliger schrieb:
> 
>> Hi
>>
>> I have to check wheter a .py script is run within the debug or the 
>> release version of an embedded python interpreter (in short, wheter 
>> python24_d.dll or python24.dll is in use).
>>
>> long version: I'm using ctypes to load my own dll. There exists 2 
>> version of this dll - a debug and a release version (where one is 
>> linked against debug C runtime dll and the other to release C runtime 
>> dll). Now
>> I have to change the name of the dll I want to be loaded by ctypes... 
>> But how can I find out which of the dll I have to load?!
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> Raphael Zulliger
> 
> 
> You could use imp.get_suffixes(). In a release build the returned list 
> will contain these entries
> ('.pyd', 'rb', 3), ('.dll', 'rb', 3)
> in a debug build that will be
> ('_d.pyd', 'rb', 3), ('_d.dll', 'rb', 3)
> 
> Another way would be to look at the filename of any binary extension 
> module.  _ctypes.__file__, for example:  '.....\\_ctypes.pyd' vs. 
> '....\\_ctypes_d.pyd'.
> 
> Thomas