RFC: add ability to "source" Python code

Matt Rice ratmice@gmail.com
Wed Feb 11 21:26:00 GMT 2009


On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Also, would an arbitrary Python script necessarily do anything useful
> in GDB?  Some of them probably will, but not just any one, I think.
>

Yes,

(gdb) python execfile("/home/ratmice/bar.py")
(gdb) python foo()
foo

where the foo function is defined in bar.py.
so it acts just like 'source' in a shell i would imagine.



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