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From: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: Robert Lupton the Good <rhl@astro.princeton.edu>,
	gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Problem redefining python pretty printers
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 15:24:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3pqn9phj7.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=tU+VtzpvkzQiDZQgVsi5UjVr6kQ@mail.gmail.com> (Doug	Evans's message of "Mon, 23 May 2011 08:05:51 -0700")

Doug Evans <dje@google.com> writes:

> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Robert Lupton the Good
> <rhl@astro.princeton.edu> wrote:

>> The routine register is:
>>> def register():
>>>     printer = gdb.printing.RegexpCollectionPrettyPrinter("afw")
>>>     gdb.printing.register_pretty_printer(gdb, printer)
>>
>> Any advice on what I'm doing wrong?  I suppose I could come up with a new name each time, but that seems a little clumsy.
>
> You're not doing anything wrong, per se.
> I think we need to handle this use-case though.
> gdb could either provide a way to replace an existing pretty-printer
> or delete it so that it can be re-added.

I guess you could delete it from the (gdb) list directly by using the
Python list functions.  But that is hacky.  I agree on the specific
API. I can't remember seeing a bug for this. Is there one?

Cheers,

Phil


      reply	other threads:[~2011-05-23 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-22  1:41 Robert Lupton the Good
2011-05-23 15:06 ` Doug Evans
2011-05-23 15:24   ` Phil Muldoon [this message]

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