> If I invoke it in a shell.. then it can be verbose > > If it is launched from a crontab.. then it is less verbose.
You need to check who the process owner is. That can be done on *Nix by reading the USER environment variable. Cron jobs are usually run under the 'cron' user I believe. Hoever that won;t work if the python script is executed in a shell script that is then executed by a user. Its usually better to make verbosity controllable by a flag - traditionally -v. Thus the default is non verbode and verbosity can be switched on(or even given any one of several levels) as desired. Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
