Compiling python modules with DEBUG defined on MSVC

Question

Python rather stupidly has a pragma directive in its include files that forces a link against python26_d.lib when the DEBUG preprocessor variable i

Answer 1

Based on all answers I successfully disabled _DEBUG temporary:

#if _DEBUG
  #define _DEBUG_IS_ENABLED
  #undef _DEBUG
#endif
#include "pyconfig.h"
#if defined(_DEBUG_IS_ENABLED)
  #define _DEBUG
#endif