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Martin v. Löwis added the comment: I have now changed Makefile.pre.in to not install python-gdb.py as a script anymore; this seems to work fine. People will still need to remove there existing python-gdb.py (or make clean) to see this change. -- __

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Benjamin Peterson added the comment: 2010/4/3 Martin v. Löwis : > Benjamin, would a .gdbinit in the top-level build directory still be annoying? That would be fine with me. -- ___ Python tracker __

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Jeffrey Yasskin added the comment: http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Auto_002dloading.html says "If this file exists and is readable, gdb will evaluate it as a Python script." So maybe it doesn't need to be executable? -- ___ Python

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Martin v. Löwis added the comment: That is tricky to do. gdb will consider it automatically only if it is called -gdb.py. I agree that there should be a better solution, though. David, is it possible to somehow hook this into .gdbinit, with an arbitrary path? Benjamin, would a .gdbinit in th

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Benjamin Peterson added the comment: Could I request that the python-gdb.py script not be put in the top level directory? It's a little annoying to have another executable script starting with "python" when you're trying to test the "python" executable. -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson __

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Mark Dickinson added the comment: > To my knowledge, OS X doesn't ship with gdb 7 That sounds right. On my OS X 10.6.3 machine, the system gdb is: Mark-Dickinsons-MacBook-Pro:py3k dickinsm$ gdb --version GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-1346) (Fri Sep 18 20:40:51 UTC 2009) I have t

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Mark Dickinson added the comment: Added python.exe-gdb.py to svn:ignore in r79616. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mail

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Dave Malcolm added the comment: > A nitpick: on OS X, the gdb script ends up being called: > > python.exe-gdb.py > > Is this intentional? If it is, then I'll add this filename to the > svn:ignore property. (And also to make distclean, I guess. Is python- > gdb.py currently deleted by a 'mak

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Mark Dickinson added the comment: A nitpick: on OS X, the gdb script ends up being called: python.exe-gdb.py Is this intentional? If it is, then I'll add this filename to the svn:ignore property. (And also to make distclean, I guess. Is python-gdb.py currently deleted by a 'make distclea

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Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Thanks for the patch. I have committed it as r79548, with two modifications: - I added a future import for with_statement, as many installations will still use Python 2.5 - I commented out many of the tests, as they were failing for me. I'll report those as s

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Dave Malcolm added the comment: Adding diff from v4 to v5, for ease of review. For my reference, md5sum of v5's hooks: d3e039bb1279e71e847cc7ade10d3272 python-gdb.py -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file16716/diff-of-gdb7-hooks-v5-relative-to-v4.diff ___

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Dave Malcolm added the comment: I'm attaching a new version of the patch (v5), against svn trunk (r79517) I've been testing these hooks by using "gdb attach" to attach to real-world python programs. When doing this with earlier versions of the hooks, gdb would pause for many seconds when pri

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Dave Malcolm added the comment: (adding diff from v3 to v4, for ease of review) -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file16657/diff-of-gdb7-hooks-v4-relative-to-v3.diff ___ Python tracker

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Dave Malcolm added the comment: I'm attaching a new version of the patch (v4), against svn trunk (r79422) Changes since v3: * added support for PySetObject (set/frozenset) * added support for PyBaseExceptionObject (BaseException) * fixed a signed vs unsigned char issue that led to excepti

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Dave Malcolm added the comment: Attaching diff from v2 to v3 -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file16526/diff-of-gdb7-hooks-v3-relative-to-v2.diff ___ Python tracker ___ ___

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Dave Malcolm added the comment: Thanks for reviewing the patch. I've changed the pretty-printing of NULL pointers to "0x0" as suggested, and I've updated frame printing. Frames are now printed like this (gdb) p f $1 = Frame 0x827e544, for file /home/david/coding/python-gdb/crasher.py, line 1

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Martin v. Löwis added the comment: I find the printing of frame objects confusing: 3033f = PyFrame_New(tstate, co, globals, locals); (gdb) 3034if (f == NULL) (gdb) p f $3 = File /home/martin/work/27/Lib/encodings/utf_8.py, line 15, in decode () I didn't recognize that t

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Dave Malcolm added the comment: Martin: thanks for reviewing this. Re msg100537: sorry about the inauspicious start. I've added some bulletproofing for the case you discovered, and added two new unit tests. Re msg100538: OK. I've removed my name and the copyright notice in all places apart

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Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Attribution question: would it be ok if all mentioning of your name in the patch was removed accept for the one in Misc/ACKS? I'm concerned that statements of authorship may become incorrect over time (if people start contributing to it), yet nobody will dar

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Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Maybe I'm using it incorrectly, but my first attempt to use it failed: gdb) b PyEval_EvalCodeEx Breakpoint 1 at 0x80fc51d: file Python/ceval.c, line 3020. (gdb) c Continuing. 1+2 Breakpoint 1, PyEval_EvalCodeEx (co=0xb7d86928, globals=Traceback (most recent

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New submission from Dave Malcolm : gdb 7 can be extended with Python code, allowing the writing of domain-specific pretty-printers and commands. I've been working on gdb 7 hooks to make it easier to debug python itself, as mentioned here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EasierPythonD