Mike Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Consider an interactive program, that asks the user several > questions, and displays paragraphs of information based on those > questions. The paragraphs are output using print, and the questions > are asked via raw_input.
Okay so far. > You want to do some simple debugging of the program by printing some > debugging statements via 'print >>sys.stderr', and you don't want > the debug output mixed in with the normal output on the screen, so > you try to route the debugging output to a file by adding > '2>filename' to the end of the command line. This issue isn't specific to Python. "Program stops to ask questions from the user" is not compatible with "Can safely redirect output of the program to a file". Either one, or both, of those requirements will have to be compromised, or dropped completely. -- \ "Holy hole in a donut, Batman!" -- Robin | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
