[IPython-dev] stdout when running the test suite
Brian Granger
ellisonbg at gmail.com
Sun Apr 24 23:50:12 EDT 2011
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 7:22 PM, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 17:16, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4/24/11 3:26 PM, MinRK wrote:
>>> This has been true for a *long* time - at least January 2010. I did
>>> some checking, and it turns out that it's actually related to io.Term,
>>> so I pushed a fix to PR #397, since that's regarding the same code.
>>>
>>> The Term object created with the InteractiveShell latches onto
>>> sys.stdout before nose redirects it (which happens in every test), so
>>> anything printed there would still arrive at stdout. I've fixed this
>>> in the tests, by creating simple StreamProxy objects that are soft
>>> links to sys.stdout/err, rather than hard ones, so the Capture plugin
>>> should still work with IPython output.
>>
>> For what it's worth, I've had to do a similar thing in a non-test situation. It
>> might be worthwhile to expose such a thing in io itself.
>
> Good to know. For that matter, I'm not sure why we have
> io.stdout/stderr (previously io.Term.cout/cerr) at all.
> Under what circumstances do we want streams going to our stdout/stderr
> to be handled *differently* from sys.stdout,stderr, or a logger?
I am not sure how Term came into being. The only reasons I can think
of to separate sys.stdout/in/err from io.stdout/in/err are:
1) The versions in io handle colors on Windows.
2) The idea of separating user io (sys.stdout/in/err) from IPython
Now 1) we are definitely using and I am not sure we want to run all
user io through that. While I like the idea of 2), we don't really
take advantage of this separation currently. Although, I imagine a
frontend could handle that output differently if it wanted to.
In my mind, logging is a completely different issue in terms of
function/content, although we still have to decide which streams to
run logging on.
Cheers,
Brian
> -MinRK
>
>>
>> --
>> Robert Kern
>>
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>> that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
>> an underlying truth."
>> -- Umberto Eco
>>
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Brian E. Granger
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
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