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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFA][patch 1/9] Yet another respin of the patch with initial	Python support
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> Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>, bauerman@br.ibm.com,
>         gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:25:48 -0600
> 
> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> Eli> So are you saying that adding Python will enable features that are
> Eli> beyond user-defined commands (a.k.a. scripting)?  If so, what are
> Eli> those features?
> 
> The python programmer will be able to access nearly everything.  We
> already have (on the branch) representations for threads, breakpoints,
> commands, internal functions (a new feature), blocks, frames, symbols,
> symbol tables, and values.

Yes, but is there some _purpose_ of accessing these internals, except
for writing user-defined commands?