From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29903 invoked by alias); 26 Mar 2008 18:23:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 29895 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Mar 2008 18:23:24 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:22:45 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m2QIMdW9017297; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:22:39 -0400 Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [10.11.255.20]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m2QIMdNR017273; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:22:39 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (vpn-248-165.boston.redhat.com [10.13.248.165]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m2QIMaLn025355; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:22:36 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 76A8B3780C2; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:26:40 -0600 (MDT) To: Paul Koning Cc: jimb@red-bean.com, bauerman@br.ibm.com, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: repo to work on python scripting support References: <1205538908.6643.138.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1206369478.29533.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080325114520.GA21688@caradoc.them.org> <8f2776cb0803251118o316d261erb340d67bb0580967@mail.gmail.com> <18409.18988.613477.542099@pkoning-laptop.equallogic.com> <18409.21257.48822.645806@pkoning-laptop.equallogic.com> <8f2776cb0803251441m169bfcddkb12bc8873bd4cf8f@mail.gmail.com> <18410.23162.503583.519896@gargle.gargle.HOWL> From: Tom Tromey Reply-To: Tom Tromey X-Attribution: Tom Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:41:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <18410.23162.503583.519896@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (Paul Koning's message of "Wed\, 26 Mar 2008 10\:15\:22 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (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: 2008-03/txt/msg00245.txt.bz2 Paul> The goal of supporting Python scripting should be to provide an Paul> environment that is familiar to Python programmers. That means Paul> passing arguments in the way Python normally does. I think we're misunderstanding each other somehow. This particular sub-discussion is just about how to parse arguments passed from the gdb CLI into Python. The Python code people write and plug into gdb will just be plain old Python. Fetching data from gdb will look Pythonic. Longer term, I'd like to be able to fully control gdb from Python. Tom