Re: [patch] PR python/11407

[Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>]

>>>>> "André" == André Pönitz <andre.poenitz@nokia.com> writes:

André> I'd guess it would be nice for a front end to get a hint that
André> something unusual happened in case it wants to have some kind of
André> special handling of such cases (like localizing the error
André> message).

André> A separate field error="...", or perhaps value="<error reading
André> variable: %s>" as suggested with an additional field iserror="1"
André> would be easier to handle than checking the "value" field for
André> well-known strings, especially if such content could be legal
André> output in some cases, too.

That would be fine with me.

I am curious to hear what Volodya wants.

André> [But take this with a grain of salt, I/we haven't used MI for
André> data retrieval for a while now, so maybe there are already enough
André> hints in the output nowadays.]

What do you use?

Tom