On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 10:33:09AM +0100, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Thursday February 05 2015 08:22:09 Harri Pasanen wrote: > > >> llbd script "run our script" > >> > >> but that doesn't strike me as very elegant either. > >> > > > >If it is a long running script, it seems quite elegant to me, as I solves > >the correct python selection as André mentioned. > > Maybe "elegant" wasn't the best choice of words. The context is of course a > GUI interface that communicates with lldb through some kind of python > interface. Depending on how exactly that communication is set up (and python > started) it might not be straightforward to replace the python call with a > call to lldb that then needs to be sent a command to start the python > interpreter, which may not be prepared to handle a non-interactive terminal. > I haven't had time to look at what exactly goes on in Creator's code.
... > But for instance, I tried `lldb -o script` and on OS X that got me in a > Python-prompt-printing dead loop which required me to killall -1 lldb. On > Linux lldb reacts differently: I get into the Python interpreter after > sending an EOF (^D), but then every Python expression I tried led to a core > dump. I would take that as an indication that this is not the approach taken. > It does seem however that sys.executable points to the correct python > executable (checked only on Linux). Invoking sys.executable inside LLDB does not reliably produce a Python executable usable with that LLDB. Not even on Linux. > Which leads me to another thought I can't verify ATM because not on a Mac: > does Qt Creator allow selection of the lldb executable to use? Yes. You don't need a Mac to verify. You can have use different executables on all supported platforms. > It's not at > all uncommon to have different versions, and of course each will require the > use of its own python executable. The point of invoking LLDB first is to not have to care where its Python support infrastructure lives. Andre' _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
