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Re: final question: logging to stdout and updating files

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On Thursday, 4 October 2012 08:41:35 UTC+5:30, Littlefield, Tyler  wrote:
> pHello all:
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> I've seen frameworks like django reload files when it detects that 
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> they've been changed; how hard would it be to make my engine reload 
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> files that it detects were changed? I'm also curious how hard it would 
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> be to build in some error recovery. For example right now when an 
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> exception occurs, the player is sometimes just left hanging. It's a lot 
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> harder with Python for me, because I don't get the compile-time errors 
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> that I would with c++ for example to know that I did something wrong; 
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> while that's not always useful/and by far it doesn't catch everything, 
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> it does help. I'm familiar with things like pychecker, but it seems to 
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> be reporting a lot of issues that aren't issues. For example, I have a 
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> world module which is the core of the engine; it handles players, as 
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> well as keeps tracks of all rooms that are loaded in the game and that. 
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> Because player and world would have circular imports, I just pass the 
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> world object into player functions like logon/create. Pychecker tells me 
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> that the world parameter (which is a local var at that point) shadows 
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> the world variable in world; world is a singleton, so when you import 
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> world it just has a world = World() at the bottom of the module.
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> 
> 
> also: I have the following code:
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>      logging.basicConfig(filename=path.join("logs", "mud.log"), 
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> level=logging.DEBUG)
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>      logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
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>      logger.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler())
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> I like it displaying to stderr since usually when I'm doing this I'm in 
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> screen bouncing back and forth between the output and the tt++ session, 
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> but right now I can't get a couple of things; I'm not sure how to set it 
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> to log and all other messages to stderr as I did for the file, and I'd 
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> like to use a rotating log handler so that it'll rotate when the files 
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> are say above 16 KB or something. Is it possible to do something like 
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> this; perhaps make it compress the file before it writes to disk, or 
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> call a command to do so, so that it wouldn't hang the entire mud while 
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> it compresses?
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> Thanks, and sorry again for all the questions.
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> 
> 
> -- 
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> Take care,
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> Ty
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> http://tds-solutions.net
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> The aspen project: a barebones light-weight mud engine:
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> http://code.google.com/p/aspenmud
> 
> He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.

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final question: logging to stdout and updating files "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com> - 2012-10-03 21:11 -0600
  Re: final question: logging to stdout and updating files Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-10-04 00:53 -0700
  Re: final question: logging to stdout and updating files Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-10-04 00:53 -0700
  Re: final question: logging to stdout and updating files Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-10-04 06:34 -0700
  Re: final question: logging to stdout and updating files Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-10-04 06:34 -0700
    Re: final question: logging to stdout and updating files Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-10-04 14:00 +0000
      Re: final question: logging to stdout and updating files Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-10-05 00:27 +1000
      RE: final question: logging to stdout and updating files "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-10-04 22:36 +0000
      Re: final question: logging to stdout and updating files Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-10-05 09:11 +0100
      Re: final question: logging to stdout and updating files Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-10-05 09:19 +0100
      Re: final question: logging to stdout and updating files Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-10-05 06:32 -0700
  Re: final question: logging to stdout and updating files Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-10-04 14:52 +0000

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