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python-interactive, and quitting gdb pagination
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Khoo Yit Phang <khooyp at cs dot umd dot edu>, GDB Patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:07:26 +0100
- Subject: python-interactive, and quitting gdb pagination
FYI, I just tried playing with this a little, and stumbled on:
(gdb) python-interactive
>>> help (gdb)
Help on package gdb:
...
...
...
TypeIterator
Value
exceptions.Exception(exceptions.BaseException)
GdbError
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---q
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site.py", line 471, in __call__
return pydoc.help(*args, **kwds)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/pydoc.py", line 1744, in __call__
self.help(request)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/pydoc.py", line 1791, in help
else: doc(request, 'Help on %s:')
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/pydoc.py", line 1528, in doc
pager(render_doc(thing, title, forceload))
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/pydoc.py", line 1432, in plainpager
sys.stdout.write(plain(text))
File "<string>", line 13, in write
KeyboardInterrupt: Quit
>>>
That traceback surprised me, but maybe it's expected.
--
Pedro Alves