From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8440 invoked by alias); 10 Mar 2011 21:08:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 8432 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Mar 2011 21:08:24 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:08:20 +0000 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p2AL8Eov023091 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:08:14 -0500 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p2AL8DW4030167; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:08:14 -0500 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p2AL8CeD018173; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:08:12 -0500 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id EFA403797CD; Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:08:11 -0700 (MST) From: Tom Tromey To: Joachim Protze Cc: Andrew Oakley , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Python API - pretty printing complex types References: <20110309004619.7256b052@ado-gentoo> <4D77352D.3010004@wh2.tu-dresden.de> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:08:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <4D77352D.3010004@wh2.tu-dresden.de> (Joachim Protze's message of "Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:07:09 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg00081.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Joachim" == Joachim Protze writes: Joachim> My first approach makes use of the undocumented (online-doc) Joachim> array-method of gdb.Type, that i put in a handy function -- the Joachim> straight forward way. I looked, and this is documented in CVS. We try pretty hard to document the whole Python API. If you run across something missing, or if you find something unclear or under-documented, please report it in bugzilla. Joachim> For the second approach you have to put a typedef into your source -- Joachim> the more flexible way for complex situations. Nice trick! I do think we should do something not needing tricks in the source. Tom