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ROCGDB provides two commands for accessing the Python interpreter, and one related setting:
python-interactive [command]
pi [command]
Without an argument, the python-interactive
command can be used
to start an interactive Python prompt. To return to ROCGDB,
type the EOF
character (e.g., Ctrl-D on an empty prompt).
Alternatively, a single-line Python command can be given as an argument and evaluated. If the command is an expression, the result will be printed; otherwise, nothing will be printed. For example:
(gdb) python-interactive 2 + 3 5
python [command]
py [command]
The python
command can be used to evaluate Python code.
If given an argument, the python
command will evaluate the
argument as a Python command. For example:
(gdb) python print 23 23
If you do not provide an argument to python
, it will act as a
multi-line command, like define
. In this case, the Python
script is made up of subsequent command lines, given after the
python
command. This command list is terminated using a line
containing end
. For example:
(gdb) python >print 23 >end 23
set python print-stack
By default, ROCGDB will print only the message component of a
Python exception when an error occurs in a Python script. This can be
controlled using set python print-stack
: if full
, then
full Python stack printing is enabled; if none
, then Python stack
and message printing is disabled; if message
, the default, only
the message component of the error is printed.
set python ignore-environment [on|off]
By default this option is ‘off’, and, when ROCGDB
initializes its internal Python interpreter, the Python interpreter
will check the environment for variables that will effect how it
behaves, for example PYTHONHOME
, and
PYTHONPATH
19.
If this option is set to ‘on’ before Python is initialized then Python will ignore all such environment variables. As Python is initialized early during ROCGDB’s startup process, then this option must be placed into the early initialization file (see Initialization Files) to have the desired effect.
This option is equivalent to passing -E to the real
python
executable.
set python dont-write-bytecode [auto|on|off]
When this option is ‘off’, then, once ROCGDB has initialized the Python interpreter, the interpreter will byte-compile any Python modules that it imports and write the byte code to disk in .pyc files.
If this option is set to ‘on’ before Python is initialized then Python will no longer write the byte code to disk. As Python is initialized early during ROCGDB’s startup process, then this option must be placed into the early initialization file (see Initialization Files) to have the desired effect.
By default this option is set to ‘auto’, in this mode Python will
check the environment variable PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
to see
if it should write out byte-code or not.
This option is equivalent to passing -B to the real
python
executable.
It is also possible to execute a Python script from the ROCGDB interpreter:
source script-name
The script name must end with ‘.py’ and ROCGDB must be configured
to recognize the script language based on filename extension using
the script-extension
setting. See Extending GDB.
The following commands are intended to help debug ROCGDB itself:
set debug py-breakpoint on|off
show debug py-breakpoint
When ‘on’, ROCGDB prints debug messages related to the Python breakpoint API. This is ‘off’ by default.
set debug py-unwind on|off
show debug py-unwind
When ‘on’, ROCGDB prints debug messages related to the Python unwinder API. This is ‘off’ by default.
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