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Originally Posted by theducks
double the >, to >> and it appends to the named file for a 'running' log
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Yes, but I seldom want a running log. During development, I do a lot of "find all" searches for messages output from the recipe, so I don't want to see the results of earlier tests. I use a standard format for printing messages from the recipe with a standard text string.
print 'The tag, variable or whatever being tracked is: ', variable_name
I search for all occurrences of the string "is: " to find critical junction points in the recipe. I often have the recipe print the entire "soup" of each article page, sometimes multiple times as it is processed, so my output has short messages tracking variables and errors, which are buried in the source code of multiple other pages. Finding the critical messages is hard enough without digging through older junk.