Add a note for how to get the list of threads
Commit Message
It's not immediately obvious how to get the list of threads,
so add a note about that in the "Threads in Python" section.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2019-10-22 Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
* python.texi (Threads In Python): Add a note for how to get the
list of threads.
Change-Id: I0fef8a7aff161fc347c09052319048c907a6e8c3
---
gdb/doc/python.texi | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
Comments
> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 18:19:00 -0500
> From: "Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> Cc: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
>
> gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
>
> 2019-10-22 Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
>
> * python.texi (Threads In Python): Add a note for how to get the
> list of threads.
This is okay, but...
> +To get the list of threads for an inferior, use the @code{Inferior.threads()}
> +method. @xref{Inferiors In Python}
^^
...two spaces between sentences, please.
Thanks.
On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 11:24 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 18:19:00 -0500
> > From: "Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> > Cc: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
> >
> > gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
> >
> > 2019-10-22 Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
> >
> > * python.texi (Threads In Python): Add a note for how to get the
> > list of threads.
>
> This is okay, but...
>
> > +To get the list of threads for an inferior, use the @code{Inferior.threads()}
> > +method. @xref{Inferiors In Python}
> ^^
> ...two spaces between sentences, please.
Ah, always the hardest style rule for me to remember :( Thanks, fixed
and pushed.
To ssh://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git
c12d372d26..14796d2978 HEAD -> master
Christian
@@ -3293,6 +3293,9 @@ This function returns the thread object for the selected thread. If there
is no selected thread, this will return @code{None}.
@end defun
+To get the list of threads for an inferior, use the @code{Inferior.threads()}
+method. @xref{Inferiors In Python}
+
A @code{gdb.InferiorThread} object has the following attributes:
@defvar InferiorThread.name