KeyBoard interrupt and Redirection operator

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:10:48 -0300, aditya shukla  
<adityashukla1983 at gmail.com> escribió:

> I have a program which i use like this scraps.py arg1 arg2 > filename. I  
> am
> using the redirection operator to direct the output to the filename .The
> scenario  here is that I want to print a message as long as the program  
> is
> running and as generate an error message and exit as I use a keyboard
> interrupt.I am able to do this by using a try except clause but the  
> issue is
> that everything is written to the file as i am using the redirection
> operator .Is there a way to write the running program message and the
> terminate program mesage to the console without writing it to the file.

You're redirecting stdout, but stderr still goes to the console.

print >>sys.stderr, "This message appears on the console"

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Gabriel Genellina