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From: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
To: Taisuke Yamada <tai@rakugaki.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sys.argv and ipython (interactive python) support in GDB/Python
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In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinw1Bpd0dcj2y4-MTBditW7g=2LVQ@mail.gmail.com> (Taisuke	Yamada's message of "Fri, 1 Jul 2011 23:10:02 +0900")
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Taisuke Yamada <tai@rakugaki.org> writes:


> Not really. I'm just setting "gdb" as a text label to use when generating
> log message both in python and python library. Just like in C, it *usually*
> points to executing script itself, but after all, there's nothing that
> gurantees that.
>
> Alternatively, you can do "PySys_SetArgvEx (0, NULL, 0);", but then
> python will automatically generate empty (= "") argv[0]. That means any
> logs generated will be somewhat odd, so my idea was to have something
> instead. 

Ah ok, thanks for the explanation.

> If you're concerned, maybe "python-gdb" would be better.

I'm not, your explanation is good.

Cheers

Phil