1 /* Readline support for Python.
3 Copyright (C) 2012-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This file is part of GDB.
7 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
10 (at your option) any later version.
12 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
15 GNU General Public License for more details.
17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
21 #include "python-internal.h"
22 #include "exceptions.h"
24 #include "cli/cli-utils.h"
29 /* Readline function suitable for PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer, which
30 is used for Python's interactive parser and raw_input. In both
31 cases, sys_stdin and sys_stdout are always stdin and stdout
32 respectively, as far as I can tell; they are ignored and
33 command_line_input is used instead. */
36 gdbpy_readline_wrapper (FILE *sys_stdin
, FILE *sys_stdout
,
41 volatile struct gdb_exception except
;
43 TRY_CATCH (except
, RETURN_MASK_ALL
)
44 p
= command_line_input (prompt
, 0, "python");
46 /* Detect user interrupt (Ctrl-C). */
47 if (except
.reason
== RETURN_QUIT
)
50 /* Handle errors by raising Python exceptions. */
51 if (except
.reason
< 0)
53 /* The thread state is nulled during gdbpy_readline_wrapper,
54 with the original value saved in the following undocumented
55 variable (see Python's Parser/myreadline.c and
56 Modules/readline.c). */
57 PyEval_RestoreThread (_PyOS_ReadlineTState
);
58 gdbpy_convert_exception (except
);
63 /* Detect EOF (Ctrl-D). */
74 /* Copy the line to Python and return. */
75 q
= PyMem_Malloc (n
+ 2);
85 /* Initialize Python readline support. */
88 gdbpy_initialize_gdb_readline (void)
90 /* Python's readline module conflicts with GDB's use of readline
91 since readline is not reentrant. Ideally, a reentrant wrapper to
92 GDB's readline should be implemented to replace Python's readline
93 and prevent conflicts. For now, this file implements a
94 sys.meta_path finder that simply fails to import the readline
96 if (PyRun_SimpleString ("\
99 class GdbRemoveReadlineFinder:\n\
100 def find_module(self, fullname, path=None):\n\
101 if fullname == 'readline' and path is None:\n\
105 def load_module(self, fullname):\n\
106 raise ImportError('readline module disabled under GDB')\n\
108 sys.meta_path.append(GdbRemoveReadlineFinder())\n\
110 PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer
= gdbpy_readline_wrapper
;