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On 06/02/2013 11:22 PM, Νικόλαος Κούρας wrote:
> Ok, this email is something of a recital of how I approached this.

Excellent.  You're making progress.  Keep doing research, and learn how
to debug your python programs.

One thing I've done as a last resort when I just can't get good error
reporting because of subprocess or something else, is to have my script
open a file in /tmp and write messages to it as the program executes.
Sometimes I write out what the standard input was so I know for doing a
standalone run.  There's your free hint for the day.