On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Marcin Cieslak <[email protected]> wrote: > Dnia 01.11.2009 Santiago M. Mola <[email protected]> napisał/a: >> Hi, >> >> It seems there's a problem with userinterface_terminal.py, which gives >> problems when stdout is not a terminal but, for example, a pipe. > > Did you mean userinterfaces/terminal_interface.py ?
Yes. Sorry, I meant that. > The interface is what it says - it assumes an interactive UNIX tty > as the communication method with the user. > > I think there could be another interface implemented (for example > batch_interface.py for bots running from cron(8)) that handles > non-interactive environments. For example, by raising an Exception > whenever a question to the user is presented or > taking decision from some kind of decision file. > That would be fine. Another option would be to add a --batch option to express that there won't be interaction with the user. With that option enabled, the bot should fail if any of its mandatory values are not defined, and output should work when output is a pipe or a file. I suspect that this option might involve less code, unless a text_interface.py (probably not the best name) is created and terminal_interface.py and batch_interface.py extend it. I'd expect the batch_interface to be exactly the same as terminal_interface, just without user input. Regards, -- Santiago M. Mola Jabber ID: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l
