From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12347 invoked by alias); 24 Jun 2010 19:06:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 12338 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Jun 2010 19:06:06 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:06:02 +0000 Received: from int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.17]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o5OJ5d8j029898 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:05:39 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o5OJ5dHl030743; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:05:39 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o5OJ5cmR004611; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:05:38 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 4F7BB3792D9; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:05:38 -0600 (MDT) From: Tom Tromey To: Doug Evans Cc: Joel Brobecker , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for gdb.PYTHONDIR as $gdb_datadir/python. References: <1277403507-29213-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com> Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:06:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Doug Evans's message of "Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:39:11 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-06/txt/msg00551.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans writes: Doug> The execfile of __init__.py feels odd. I haven't seen it done Doug> elsewhere and I wonder if it's needed. Doug> [I know python has __init__.py, I just don't know if we have to Doug> *explicitly* exec it.] Normally, no, but in this case we do because the "gdb" module is created in C code, not via an import. Tom