Mark Wielaard writes about adding SystemTap probes to Python on his blog. As part of the Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) being held in Toronto, several hackers got together and added SystemTap support to Python. "The coolest part is that it works through the existing patch to python for adding dtrace support. Some small tweaks to the autoconf detection was needed, but the rest was used as is." He mentions Will Cohen's "Adding User Space Probing to an Application" document as being quite helpful in that effort.

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