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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 11:54:21 -0600
Subject: Re: Misunderstanding buffering - flushing isn't
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On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Any reason you're not using the logging module and get it all nicely dumped into a log
> file instead?

I'm an old fart. What can I say? BITD, (as Irmen is well aware, being
about as old as I am in Python years), print was all we had. (We also
walked uphill to school in both directions, in the snow.) While I use
the logging module in other contexts, I never really liked it, and
generally use it grudgingly.

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