Recently I was trying to debug an old python program who's maintenance I
inherited. I was using the quick-and-dirty method of putting some 'print
>>sys.stderr' statements in the code, and then running the command with
'2>filename' appended to the end of the command line. Imagine my surprise
to se
pobox.com> writes:
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> Isaac> Have people actually verified that the prompt is really sent to
> Isaac> stderr right now by using 2>/dev/null to attempt to suppress it?
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> Good point. On my machine at work (Solaris), Python 2.4 seems to send its
> raw_input prompt to stdout, not st
Guido van Rossum python.org> writes:
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> > It's entirely likely that the difference in what I am seeing and what you
> > guys
> > are seeing is caused by my not having GNU readline installed. Nevertheless,
> > the behavior without it seems wrong, and is certainly different from the
> > documenta
