From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24985 invoked by alias); 22 May 2010 17:57:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 24977 invoked by uid 22791); 22 May 2010 17:57:43 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 22 May 2010 17:57:38 +0000 Received: from int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.21]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o4MHvYvQ005142 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 22 May 2010 13:57:34 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o4MHvX4m022551; Sat, 22 May 2010 13:57:34 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o4MHvXRQ017761; Sat, 22 May 2010 13:57:33 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id C8CBE37818E; Sat, 22 May 2010 11:57:32 -0600 (MDT) From: Tom Tromey To: dje@google.com (Doug Evans) Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA] new python features: gdb.GdbError, gdb.string_to_argv References: <20100522165438.5D5A48439A@ruffy.mtv.corp.google.com> Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 19:00:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20100522165438.5D5A48439A@ruffy.mtv.corp.google.com> (Doug Evans's message of "Sat, 22 May 2010 09:54:38 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 X-SW-Source: 2010-05/txt/msg00529.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans writes: Doug> While writing some gdb commands in python I needed to be able to Doug> flag users errors without causing a traceback to be printed, This part seems reasonable. Doug> and I wanted a utility to translate the argument string into an argv. I think you can use the built-in shlex.split for this. Doug> + (void) make_cleanup (xfree, msg); I'd prefer us not to use casts to void. I think they are just noise. Tom