[Tutor] Is defining functions as dummies pythonic?

[Danny Yoo]

> I'm writing a program where I let the user use a "-v" option to decide
> if he wants the output to be verbose. At the beginning, I was putting
> lots of lines such as:
>
> if isverbose:
>     print "(Somewhat informative text)"
>
> where "isverbose" is a bool. After a while, this got to be a bore, and I
> rewrote the whole thing by starting with:
>
> if isverbose:
>     def verbosize(text=""):
>         print text
> else:
>     def verbosize(text=""):
>         pass

[some text cut]


Hi Scot,


You might want to look at the 'logging' module:

    http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-logging.html

It's designed to handle several levels of verbosity, and is quite nice.



Good luck!