, it seems necessary to set a breakpoint in the Python interpreter,
          rather than using ^C to break execution. A good place to set this breakpoint
          is PyOS_Readline, which will stop execution immediately before reading
          each interactive Python command. You have to let Python start once under
          the debugger, so that it loads its own DLL, before you can set the breakpoint:
        </p>
<pre class="programlisting"><span class="error">$</span> <span class="identifier">gdb</span