Re: controlling gdb via python's pexpect

[Greg Law <glaw at undo-software dot com>]

fpga wrote:
> fpga wrote:
> > Can someone please give me an example of how this is done.
> > I'm afraid the documentation is not helping me.
> > Thx
>
> George
> You've got further than I have!
> I tried to use subprocess but failed.

Yeah, pipes might appear to work at first if you're "lucky", but pretty 
quickly you'll come unstuck due to problems with buffering.

Here's a trivial example for gdb with pexpect:

import pexpect, sys
child = pexpect.spawn( 'gdb a.out')
child.setlog( sys.stdout)
child.expect_exact ('(gdb) ')
child.send ('run\n')
child.expect_exact ('Program exited normally.')
child.expect_exact ('(gdb) ')
child.send ('quit\n')
child.expect( pexpect.EOF


Note that the pexpect.expect method takes a regular expression but 
"expect_exact" doesn't.  If you're going to use the expect method be 
sure to escape things like parentheses.

Greg
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