claims of python unit test un-debugability considered somewhat exaggerated

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "David" == David Ostrovsky <d.ostrovsky at gmx.de> writes:

David> The only question is now, how to skip the manual sourcing of
David> libpython.py? If i understand it right, it happens automagically on
David> Fedora?

Yes, Fedora installs
    /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib64/libpython2.7.so.1.0.debug-gdb.py
(e.g.) as a "hook" file for gdb to load.  And, it sets up gdb's trusted
auto-load path to allow this.

See:
    http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Python-Auto_002dloading.html#Python-Auto_002dloading

Tom