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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2007-10-30 18:34:07 +0000
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2007-10-30 18:34:07 +0000
commitd567261879f7928ccf22db245644f20ba0190d18 (patch)
treedeba9c1325edabe63e533d140b40a0d200903698 /Python/pythonrun.c
parentd3f28c12425bf1cca0c451cd6047b39d0dd4fcb8 (diff)
downloadcpython-d567261879f7928ccf22db245644f20ba0190d18.tar.gz
Patch 1352 (continued in issue 1329) by Christian Heimes.
Before sys.stderr is set to the proper thing, set it to a really simple file-like object that can print tracebacks using direct file descriptor I/O. This is handy for debugging.
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Python/pythonrun.c b/Python/pythonrun.c
index 76da8fb7f7..ec9ed02ab9 100644
--- a/Python/pythonrun.c
+++ b/Python/pythonrun.c
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ Py_InitializeEx(int install_sigs)
{
PyInterpreterState *interp;
PyThreadState *tstate;
- PyObject *bimod, *sysmod;
+ PyObject *bimod, *sysmod, *pstderr;
char *p;
#if defined(HAVE_LANGINFO_H) && defined(CODESET)
char *codeset;
@@ -228,6 +228,13 @@ Py_InitializeEx(int install_sigs)
PyDict_SetItemString(interp->sysdict, "modules",
interp->modules);
+ /* Set up a preliminary stderr printer until we have enough
+ infrastructure for the io module in place. */
+ pstderr = PyFile_NewStdPrinter(fileno(stderr));
+ if (pstderr == NULL)
+ Py_FatalError("Py_Initialize: can't set preliminary stderr");
+ PySys_SetObject("stderr", pstderr);
+
_PyImport_Init();
/* initialize builtin exceptions */