Re: [RFA] 12843

Tom Tromey
2011-08-30T17:21:24Z

>>>>> "André" == André Pönitz <andre.poenitz@nokia.com> writes:

Tom> Do you generate MI-compliant output from Python? I'm curious.

André> Sort of. Originally it was fully compliant, then extra fields had been
André> added and additional commas became "legal" (to save a few cycles
André> for the check whether they are necessary). But it's still pretty MI-ish.

I ask because I occasionally wonder whether it would be useful to add
support for converting (a subset of) Python objects to MI.

Phil might need it for breakpoint_ops; but I think we were thinking in
terms of a one-off, where a generic facility might be better.

Tom