On Jul 14, 4:48 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek- central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > In message <93f6a517-63d8-4c80- > > bf19-4614b7099...@m7g2000prd.googlegroups.com>, Carl Banks wrote: > > Or would you rather let all unexpected exceptions print to standard > > error, which is often a black hole in non-interactive sitations? > > Since when? > > Cron, for example, collects standard error and mails it to you.
1. Cron is only one way to run programs non-interactively. (Would that work with, say, Windows services?) 2. Many systems don't run MTAs these days 3. In my experience the pipeline from cron to mail delivery is error prone, mainly due to the complexity of configuring MTAs 4. Even if all this works, you might just want to do your logging directly in Python anyway Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
