How to find out if the interpreter is a debug build?

[llothar]

On 1 Sep., 10:37, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l... at geek-
central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
> In message <1188609417.273513.74... at i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, llothar
> wrote:
>
> > How can i find out if a selected python interpreter  (i only know the
> > path name under which i should start it) is a debug build?
>
> What's the difference in their behaviour?

Total different and total incompatible behaviour if you write
an IDE (Debugger/Profiler etc.)

And total different for binary extensions.