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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: Paul_Koning@dell.com, khooyp@cs.umd.edu, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Make the "python" command resemble the standard Python interpreter
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>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans <dje@google.com> writes:

Paul> Yes, but I think the benefits outweigh the small imcompatibility.

Doug> Yes and no.
Doug> - I may want a script that invokes python interactively.
Doug> - How do I write a gdb macro that invokes the python repl?

I think:

(gdb) python gdb.execute('python', from_tty = True)

This is sort of weird, but I think it is ok to require a weird command
to fill an unusual need.

Tom