SimpleXMLRPCServer clobbering sys.stderr? (2.5.2)

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:54:23 -0300, Joseph Turian <turian at gmail.com>  
escribió:

> I was having a mysterious problem with SimpleXMLRPCServer. (I am using
> Python 2.5.2)

I'd start updating Python to the latest 2.5 release: 2.5.4

> The request handlers were sometimes failing without any error message
> to the log output.
>
> What I discovered was perplexing.
> I had some 'print' statements in the handers that, assuming the
> request would be handled, would print just fine. When I switched to
> 'print >> sys.stderr', the request handlers would just fail
> completely, and not make the sys.stderr output that I desired.

Perhaps you need to flush the file also? sys.stderr.flush()

> It seems that SimpleXMLRPCServer is clobbering stderr in some bizarre
> and silent-error-causing way.
> I can't really find any documentation of explanation of this
> phenomenon.
>
> Could someone please illuminate it for me?

XMLRPCServer doesn't reassign or alter sys.stderr, just uses it in the  
log_message method. I'd look in some other place...

-- 
Gabriel Genellina