From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 48968 invoked by alias); 23 Jan 2020 17:39:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 48960 invoked by uid 89); 23 Jan 2020 17:39:59 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy= X-HELO: us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com Received: from us-smtp-1.mimecast.com (HELO us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com) (207.211.31.81) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:39:58 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1579801197; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=tirawvGCbOQbQ2hiwb6sIR3rz+Slu1WwYugH2ma6anY=; b=NJ/x93cvdAa5NmY+EcJ9RXsdFkFAnOLLoZl1MVZdIct+MgyLs7uLsZjq4/8HCfJqVltLVT PzndIyThvnYrcSZGxBKNfX3pUyWGs3jWGvnGMdIGiXWxktLa4q4mFby1kck12Kglsx0MAr CPOrExJtjZqkaGSIrhVS7mFosAtu8rQ= Received: from mail-wm1-f70.google.com (mail-wm1-f70.google.com [209.85.128.70]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-37-44QvY51PMuqKTO-ZfiNjkg-1; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 12:32:21 -0500 Received: by mail-wm1-f70.google.com with SMTP id b133so1434521wmb.2 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:32:20 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: from ?IPv6:2001:8a0:f909:7b00:56ee:75ff:fe8d:232b? ([2001:8a0:f909:7b00:56ee:75ff:fe8d:232b]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t131sm3518957wmb.13.2020.01.23.09.32.18 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:32:19 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Discrepancy between Python and Guile wrt exiting the interpreter To: Simon Marchi , Eli Zaretskii , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <83a76l10r6.fsf@gnu.org> <9684975c-324f-b26b-de87-6d37c0d8d08a@redhat.com> <081e7258-3fb8-6231-ca25-f2d18d255645@simark.ca> From: Pedro Alves Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:50:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <081e7258-3fb8-6231-ca25-f2d18d255645@simark.ca> X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2020-01/txt/msg00739.txt.bz2 On 1/23/20 5:21 PM, Simon Marchi wrote: > On 2020-01-23 12:10 p.m., Pedro Alves wrote: >> Note that these commands are not direct equivalents. The guile equivalent >> to "pi" which is short for "python" would be "guile", or "gu", and with >> that command you get the same behavior as "pi", in the sense that ",q" >> doesn't bail you out, you have to type some command and finish with >> either Ctrl-D or Ctrl-C to abort. > > "pi" is not a shorthand for "python", it's a shorthand for "python-interactive", > which spawns a Python interpreter prompt/repl. So I think that and "guile-repl" > are quite similar. It's just that the Python repl doesn't provide a convenient > way (other than ctrl-D) so say "exit the repl". Indeed, I got confused with that. Thanks, Pedro Alves