Python-GDB support is cool -- that is, Python scripting in GDB. Been playing with it over the last few days as I've needed to do some debugging and it's come in handy a few times. More documentation and examples would be good, but it appears to work very well.
Starting to see one or two interesting bits and pieces / examples on the 'net: http://tromey.com/blog/?p=412 - http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2009/10/09/gdb-over-irc/ - http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2008/11/18/gdb-is-dead-long-live-gdb/.
I have to admit, when I first installed it, I couldn't find a single use for the Python extension. But a couple of days later, I was using it in earnest to solve real problems. Quite useful for just formatting output of complex data types, but the above links show it can do quite a bit more than that with some imagination...
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