[Mailman-Developers] Debugging mailman (resolving inline signatureattachments)

Sven Ulland sveniu at ifi.uio.no
Sat Sep 30 10:53:36 CEST 2006


Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Sven Ingebrigt Ulland wrote:
> 
>> Hello there. How would I go about debugging mailman, by --
>> for example -- polluting the .py libraries with print or
>> assert statements? If I do that (which seems like a pretty
>> thoughtless idea), the output would end up .. in /dev/null?
>> It would probably be better to write to file in stead?
>>
> <snip>
>> I'd really like to debug that code passage to verify what
>> variables are screwed up, and which are not.
>>
>> Any tips?
> 
> 
> Output to stderr from the queue runners (the running Mailman processes)
> is copied to Mailman's error log so you can print to sys.stderr and
> the output goes to the error log.
> 
> You can also use Mailman.Logging.Syslog.syslog() calls to write to a
> 'debug' or other log (which will be created if necessary).

Thanks, that sounds perfect.

s


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