You can put a breakpoint on symbols defined in the python extension and see if "info args" works in gdb.
Say you want to test python-apt-dbg, and have it installed. # Prepare the gdb commands that set the breakpoints nm -D -C --defined-only /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt_inst.so /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt_pkg.so |sed -rne "s#.* T ([^_][^']*)\$#break '\1'#p" |tee cmds gdb --args python -c 'import apt; c = apt.Cache(); p = c["python2.5"]' # In gdb run source cmds run # Hit a breakpoint info args # Displays args, only if python-apt-dbg is installed. -- please add support to build python dbg extensions https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85097 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs