[Python-checkins] cpython (3.3): Closes #13951: Add a "faulthandler" reference in the ctypes docs talking about

[georg.brandl]

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/1e163fdf8cf3
changeset:   86031:1e163fdf8cf3
branch:      3.3
parent:      86029:ff5fb419967f
user:        Georg Brandl <georg at python.org>
date:        Sun Oct 06 10:51:01 2013 +0200
summary:
  Closes #13951: Add a "faulthandler" reference in the ctypes docs talking about crashes.

files:
  Doc/library/ctypes.rst |  4 +++-
  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
--- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
@@ -198,7 +198,9 @@
    >>>
 
 There are, however, enough ways to crash Python with :mod:`ctypes`, so you
-should be careful anyway.
+should be careful anyway.  The :mod:`faulthandler` module can be helpful in
+debugging crashes (e.g. from segmentation faults produced by erroneous C library
+calls).
 
 ``None``, integers, bytes objects and (unicode) strings are the only native
 Python objects that can directly be used as parameters in these function calls.

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