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authorChristian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>2019-10-22 18:17:24 -0500
committerChristian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>2019-10-23 11:27:28 -0500
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Add a note for how to get the list of threads
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: 2019-10-23 Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com> * python.texi (Threads In Python): Add a note for how to get the list of threads. Change-Id: I0fef8a7aff161fc347c09052319048c907a6e8c3
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+2019-10-23 Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
+
+ * python.texi (Threads In Python): Add a note for how to get the
+ list of threads.
+
2019-10-07 Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
* gdb.texinfo: Fix typo.
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@@ -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