[Python-Dev] weird gdb/python/gtk/pango interaction? (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 00:31:57 +0200

Any idea what's going on?

When you see that a program behaves differently in gdb than it does on the shell, the most likely cause is that gdb starts another shell when running the program, I believe essentially through system("$SHELL -c command") (see gdb documentation and source for details). For example, some of the $HOME/.something files may set PYTHONPATH to some interesting value.

If you see that a Python program behaves differently from an "equivalent" C code, well, the most likely cause is that the programs are not equivalent. One obvious (to me) difference is that one calls set_title, when the other doesn't.

Regards, Martin