[Python-Dev] distutils & stderr (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Sat, 2 Feb 2002 21:43:43 -0600 

Tim> [Skip]
>> Probably so, but not all prints are guarded by "if verbose:".

Tim> Have you tried it in the case you complained about at the start of
Tim> this?

Yes, and it seems to shut things up just fine. I made that comment after having modified my source to dump all prints to stderr.

Tim> MultiMapping.c
Tim>    Creating library build\temp.win32-2.3\Release\MultiMapping.lib and object
Tim> build\temp.win32-2.3\Release\MultiMapping.exp

Tim> I believe those are generated by Microsoft's compiler (the
Tim> case-sensitive string "Creating" appears nohwere in the distutils
Tim> source; and yes, these go to stdout too), and if so there's nothing
Tim> distutils can do about that.  I don't see any messages that look
Tim> like they come from distutils.

Windows matters little to me for most applications, and not at all when I write scripts that I want to work like Unix filters, which is what my original complaint was about. I will suggest to Ken Simpson that PyInline use the -q flag.

Thx,

Skip