When I have a some crash report including some MacOSX library (in this case, I'm mostly interested in Python), how can I get more info about it? The library does not contain the debugging information, so the crash report lacks line numbers and other useful stuff. Can I get the debugging information elsewhere and reconstruct the line numbers?
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You may want to look at the lldb debugger. It is scriptable in python and pretty easy to do things like symbolicating a crash report. There is even an included example python script that can symbolicate a standard Mac OS X crash report (assuming you have dSYMs for some of the frameworks) and provide file name & line number information.
See http://lldb.llvm.org/symbolication.html for more information about using this, or it is easy to write your own python scripts with lldb. You can make a python method that is called from an lldb session (like lldb.macosx.crashlog does), or you can write a standalone python script that loads lldb and does whatever you want. lldb is structured like a library (a framework on Mac OS X), the lldb command-line command is one possible client of LLDB.framework.
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