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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2017-11-20 15:14:07 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-11-20 15:14:07 (GMT)
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bpo-32047: -X dev enables asyncio debug mode (#4418)
The new -X dev command line option now also enables asyncio debug mode.
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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/asyncio-dev.rst9
-rw-r--r--Doc/using/cmdline.rst10
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-dev.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-dev.rst
index 1838eb9..b2ad87b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-dev.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-dev.rst
@@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ enable *debug mode*.
To enable all debug checks for an application:
* Enable the asyncio debug mode globally by setting the environment variable
- :envvar:`PYTHONASYNCIODEBUG` to ``1``, or by calling :meth:`AbstractEventLoop.set_debug`.
+ :envvar:`PYTHONASYNCIODEBUG` to ``1``, using ``-X dev`` command line option
+ (see the :option:`-X` option), or by calling
+ :meth:`AbstractEventLoop.set_debug`.
* Set the log level of the :ref:`asyncio logger <asyncio-logger>` to
:py:data:`logging.DEBUG`. For example, call
``logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)`` at startup.
@@ -42,6 +44,11 @@ Examples debug checks:
* :exc:`ResourceWarning` warnings are emitted when transports and event loops
are :ref:`not closed explicitly <asyncio-close-transports>`.
+.. versionchanged:: 3.7
+
+ The new ``-X dev`` command line option can now also be used to enable
+ the debug mode.
+
.. seealso::
The :meth:`AbstractEventLoop.set_debug` method and the :ref:`asyncio logger
diff --git a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
index 01869d1..bf27c1e 100644
--- a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
+++ b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
@@ -414,16 +414,18 @@ Miscellaneous options
application. Typical usage is ``python3 -X importtime -c 'import
asyncio'``. See also :envvar:`PYTHONPROFILEIMPORTTIME`.
* ``-X dev`` enables the "developer mode": enable debug checks at runtime.
- In short, ``python3 -X dev ...`` behaves as ``PYTHONMALLOC=debug python3
+ In short, ``python3 -X dev ...`` behaves as ``PYTHONMALLOC=debug PYTHONASYNCIODEBUG=1 python3
-W default -X faulthandler ...``, except that the :envvar:`PYTHONMALLOC`
- environment variable is not set in practice. Developer mode:
+ and :envvar:`PYTHONASYNCIODEBUG` environment variables are not set in
+ practice. Developer mode:
* Add ``default`` warnings option. For example, display
:exc:`DeprecationWarning` and :exc:`ResourceWarning` warnings.
- * Install debug hooks on memory allocators as if :envvar:`PYTHONMALLOC`
- is set to ``debug``.
+ * Install debug hooks on memory allocators: see the
+ :c:func:`PyMem_SetupDebugHooks` C function.
* Enable the :mod:`faulthandler` module to dump the Python traceback
on a crash.
+ * Enable :ref:`asyncio debug mode <asyncio-debug-mode>`.
It also allows passing arbitrary values and retrieving them through the
:data:`sys._xoptions` dictionary.