Re: RFC: add ability to "source" Python code

Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-11T21:49:16Z

> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:25:40 -0800
> From: Matt Rice <ratmice@gmail.com>
> Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>, tromey@redhat.com, bauerman@br.ibm.com, drow@false.org, pedro@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > Also, would an arbitrary Python script necessarily do anything useful
> > in GDB? Some of them probably will, but not just any one, I think.
> >
>
> Yes,
>
> (gdb) python execfile("/home/ratmice/bar.py")
> (gdb) python foo()
> foo
>
> where the foo function is defined in bar.py.
> so it acts just like 'source' in a shell i would imagine.

Sorry, I don't understand how this is related. Perhaps it's too late
and I should go to sleep.