How to get a sequence of bytes with python?

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> ">" == S Boucher <stbya@yahoo.com> writes:

>> I get gdb.Value that is a pointer, and want to read 16 bytes and store
>> this in a python string.

>> gdb.Value's string() doesn't seem to have a way to interpret memory as
>> raw bytes.

Yeah.

I think a new Value method would be good.
Please at least file a bug for this.

>> Alternatively, accessing memory via gdb.Inferior seems problematic in that:

>> 1) I don't see a way to programatically get the relevant/current
>> gdb.Inferior using gdb.inferiors()

gdb.selected_inferior went in recently.

>> 2) read_memory() will require me to iterate and convert explicitly to
>> a real python string (ok, this is only a minor annoyance)

>> Any suggestion on how I could go about doing this?

You could try fetching a string using the ISO-8859-1 encoding.
This is sort of gross but it might work.

Tom