On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 03:28:36 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> P.S. On a completely unrelated note, has anyone thought about creating > >> a write-only TextIO stream that outputs received writes via the > >> logging module? > >> > > > > Is this for use at the C level? At the Python level, there's a post I wrote > > a > > while back which shows how to use a logger like an output stream: > > > > http://plumberjack.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-to-treat-logger-like-output-stream.html > > Similar in concept, but more full-featured (i.e. supporting the > relevant IO ABCs), allowing it to be used as a replacement for > stdout/stderr. That would be an interesting idea. It would fit in the logging module rather than the io module IMO. However, there are some limitations due to the fact that logging is line-based while people may output arbitrary text on stderr (perhaps ASCII-formatted tables, who knows). Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
