Debugging in Py

[Lawson English]

Jeremiah Dodds wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:25 PM, *nixtechno <epctechno at gmail.com 
> <mailto:epctechno at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Big thanks tkc, and I was wondering what your thoughts are on logging
>     module: http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html
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>     "Instead of using many print statements for debugging, use
>     logger.debug: Unlike the print statements, which you will have to
>     delete or comment out later, the logger.debug statements can remain
>     intact in the source code and remain dormant until you need them
>     again. At that time, the only change that needs to happen is to modify
>     the severity level of the logger and/or handler to debug."
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>     Where it makes sense as they state using this rather than printing,
>     due to the fact that you don't have to strip it all out when it's time
>     to release your work... I seen some writing on pdb, but I guess it's
>     time to study up on it. I appreciate the help.
>     --
>     http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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> I really like the logging module.  From the perspective of what you're 
> writing while you're working on part of an application, it tends to 
> not be that different that dropping print statements in, but there's a 
> wealth of flexibility and customizability available to you on the high 
> level.
>
> For instance, I use it at work for one of our applications, and it 
> emails me whenever certain types of events occur that I need to know 
> about. It might be overkill for small projects, but it's definately 
> worth getting to know.
>
>   
You can also redirect the logger output to various places like wx text 
controls if you use the model
that wxPython itself uses to redirect print statements to its debug 
console window. There's no end to
how you can use logger output if you work things this way since logger 
refines its output based on a
hierarchical namespace that you can modify from any point in runtime.

E.G. direct errors and other text output  from .THIS namespace logger to 
.THIS text window or scrolling
list or  logger file (or all of the above).


Lawson