SimpleXMLRPCServer clobbering sys.stderr? (2.5.2)
Brian Quinlan
brian at sweetapp.com
Wed Oct 21 08:48:31 EDT 2009
Do you have some code that we could see that provokes the problem?
Cheers,
Brian
Joseph Turian wrote:
> I was having a mysterious problem with SimpleXMLRPCServer. (I am using
> Python 2.5.2)
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> Best,
> Joseph
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