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<h3 class="section">10.9 Pretty Printing</h3>
<p><span class="sc">gdb</span> provides a mechanism to allow pretty-printing of values using
Python code. It greatly simplifies the display of complex objects. This
mechanism works for both MI and the CLI.
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<li><a accesskey="1" href="Pretty_002dPrinter-Introduction.html#Pretty_002dPrinter-Introduction">Pretty-Printer Introduction</a>: Introduction to pretty-printers
<li><a accesskey="2" href="Pretty_002dPrinter-Example.html#Pretty_002dPrinter-Example">Pretty-Printer Example</a>: An example pretty-printer
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