[Mailman-Users] Subject: newlist output [was: New user comments]

[David Smead]

Gary,

You can do things like sys.stdout.write(line), where no '\n' is added to
line as it would be with print.

Sincerely,

David Smead
http://www.amplepower.com.
http://www.ampletech.com.

On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Gary Algier wrote:

> Alright I'm tired of all the pros and cons of writing a file.  Here
> are patches to bin/newlist:
> 
> --- bin/newlist.old     Fri Jun 16 14:10:21 2000
> +++ bin/newlist Fri Jun 16 14:15:09 2000
> @@ -46,7 +46,6 @@
>  
>  
>  ALIASTEMPLATE = '''
> -Entry for aliases file:
>  
>  ## %(listname)s mailing list
>  ## created: %(date)s %(user)s
> @@ -128,7 +127,7 @@
>              }
>  
>          if len(argv) < 5:
> -            print ("Hit enter to continue with %s owner notification..."
> +            sys.stderr.write ("Hit enter to continue with %s owner notification..."
>                     % listname),
>              sys.stdin.readline()
>          # send the notice to the list owner
> 
> These patches will make the "Hit enter" `text go to stderr and they will
> omit the "Entry for...".  If you want to "see" the output and cut and
> paste with a mouse, use:
> 	newlist listname user at domain.com somepasswd
> If you don't have or want a mouse, use:
> 	newlist listname user at domain.com somepasswd >>/etc/aliases
> 
> 
> Also, if one wants to use this in a CGI it will write the useful stuff
> to stdout so it can be picked up by the CGI script and be used directly.
> Placing the data in a hardcoded file, _of_any_name_, is wrong.  What if
> two instances of "newlist" are run at the same time?  (I am assuming,
> of course, that the rest of the code in newlist is properly protected).
> 
> Two little side questions (being a non-pythoner):
> 	Why does everyting write to stdout?  Why is there no
> 	sys.stderr.print method?
> 
> -- 
> Gary Algier, WB2FWZ       gary.algier at ulticom.com           +1 856 787 2758
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