Re: [PATCH 5/7] [python] API for macros: gdb.Objfile symtabs method.

Matt Rice
2011-09-01T23:13:20Z

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com> wrote:
> matt rice <ratmice@gmail.com> writes:
>
> If there are no symtabs, why return an empty list?  Would Py_None make
> more sense here.  And same rules apply to returning a Tuple, too, as
> others.
>

the main reason here to return an empty list is just because things like

(gdb) py for i in None: print "foo"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable
Error while executing Python code.

thus you require an 'if' and python's if doesn't work as a one liner...
such as

(gdb) py for i in list(): print "foo"
(gdb)

If you would still like me to change it, no problem.