How to get input from gdb in emacs (with python script)

I want to use python to create some interactive script for gdb. It works well in gdb, but it doesn't work if I invoke gdb from emacs.

For example, the python script (test.py) is like below. It simply print what it gets.

def testInput():
    n = raw_input('(gdb) ')
    print n

It works in gdb:

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(gdb) source test.py
(gdb) python testInput()
(gdb) 1
1
(gdb) q

But in emacs, it will just hang in "raw_input" and could never get the input:

(gdb) source test.py
(gdb) python testInput()
(gdb) 1
2
...

Is there anyway to make it work just as in gdb?

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Invoking gdb with M-x gud-gdb solved the problem for me. For further details confer chapter 27 of the Emacs manual.

Hope this is still helpful after two years...

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When using an interactive external process in an emacs buffer, the mode needs to be able to recognize from the buffer when the external process is prompting the user for input so that it knows it need to allow the user to input something. Otherwise, emacs will just wait forever for the process to output something it recognizes and the process will be waiting forever for input. Since your python script uses a different prompt, the emacs gdb mode never recognizes that input is being solicited.

Try modifying the value of gdb-prompt-name-regexp. Here's the default value from gdb-mi.el:

(defvar gdb-prompt-name-regexp "value=\"\\(.*?\\)\"")