writing a filter in python

[David Bear]

I'm writing a filter to be used by lprng.  Since there is no stdout I am 
wondering two things:

1) good strategies for showing error message (was thinking of syslog)

2) an easy way to catch all exceptions and quickly return back to the 
caller (lpd)  

I'm noticing that if my script doesnt run fast enough I may end up have lpd 
try multiple times to run it.  

Any advice?
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David Bear
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