Re: [Gzz] Debug outputs.

[Tuomas Lukka]

On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 12:27:22PM +0200, Benja Fallenstein wrote:
> Tuomas Lukka wrote:
> >On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:15:41AM +0300, Matti Katila wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>It's pain to try to switch off all debug msgs because no source is 
> >>told!
> >
> >How about PEGging this to be the official line?
> 
> Should.
> 
> >>So I propouse we would use something like:
> >>
> >>Java:
> >>public class Foo {
> >>   private void pa(String s) { System.out.println("Foo:: "+s); }
> >>}
> >
> >This is fine with me
> 
> Could we make this p(String s), please?

Ok, I guess yes now that everywhere has been converted to pa().

> >>python:
> >>file: libvob.vob.putil.foo.py
> >>
> >>def pa(s):
> >>   print 'vob.putil.foo:: ',s
> >
> >Also fine
> 
> I don't like this; I like using 'print' better. Why not
> 
>     print >> dbg, s
> 
> and make it so that printing to dbg prepends 'vob.putil.foo:: ' and is 
> skipped if debug is set to off?
> 
> I guess we could import it from somewhere, so that at the top of the 
> file we only need to say:
> 
>     dbg = Dbg(__name__)

Sounds like a really good idea.

        Tuomas