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Re: RFC: add ability to "source" Python code


> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:25:40 -0800
> From: Matt Rice <ratmice@gmail.com>
> Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>, tromey@redhat.com, bauerman@br.ibm.com,  	drow@false.org, pedro@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> 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.

Sorry, I don't understand how this is related.  Perhaps it's too late
and I should go to sleep.


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