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Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:04:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: [RFA] Re: Python: add field access by name and standard python mapping methods to gdb.Type
From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, tromey@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
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On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Maybe I'd be happy if gdb.Type (and maybe gdb.Value) were simply more
>> rigorous in throwing exceptions for invalid cases.
>
> I agree. =A0I'll put that together.

Sounds great if it's possible.

I don't know enough about the C Python API, but when I tried a simple
hack to have len(scalar_type) throw an exception "not scalar_type"
started throwing exceptions too.  :-(  See PyObject_IsTrue.