Python equivalent to Perl's warn/confess/die

[Andy Lester]

I looked in the Perl/Python phrasebook and didn't see anything that
discusses an easy way to write warnings to the screen.

For instance, in Perl if I wanted to write something to stderr to show
where in my process I am, I'd say:

  warn "$n records read";

Now, I know I can say

  sys.stderr.write( '%s records read' % n ) 

But is there a module somewhere that encapsulates that so I don't
explicitly send it to stderr?

xoxo,
andy

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