Expert Python Programming - Third Edition

Debugging

When it comes to failures, the extensions may break very badly. Static typing gives you a lot of advantages over Python and allows you to catch a lot of issues during the compilation step that would be hard to notice in Python. And that can happen even without a rigorous testing routine and full test coverage. On the other hand, all memory management must be performed manually. And faulty memory management is the main reason for most programming errors in C. In the best case scenario, such mistakes will result only in some memory leaks that will gradually eat all of your environment resources. The best case does not mean easy to handle. Memory leaks are really tricky to find without using proper external tools such as Valgrind. ...