Bugs item #803413, was opened at 2003-09-09 22:31 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by loewis You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=803413&group_id=5470
Category: Python Library Group: Python 2.3 >Status: Closed >Resolution: Fixed Priority: 5 Submitted By: Sami Hangaslammi (shang) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: uu.decode prints to stderr Initial Comment: Python 2.3 final The standard library function uu.decode prints a warning message to stderr if there is an error when decoding the file. This feels like an incorrect behaviour for a library function. The warning message can be supressed by providing a quiet=True parameter, but this is not currently documented. The relevant line in uu.py is 138 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2005-03-03 11:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 I think documenting the quiet parameter is the right solution. Fixed in libuu.tex 1.14 and 1.12.20.2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin) Date: 2005-01-31 01:15 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=552329 Printing to stderr outside of debugging is uncommon for the standard library, but there are other modules (ftplib, asyncore) that do it. In this case, it only happens when there is an error (which can be recovered from), so printing to stderr seems fairly appropriate. An alternative would be to call warnings.warn(), although by default that will have the same effect. Documenting the 'quiet' parameter seems reasonable, however, and would be a simple change to libuu.tex. I can produce such a patch, if desired. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=803413&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
