Catching Errors

[Emile van Sebille]

You're right, I didn't test using win9x.  It does work on win2k, which is on
most of the systems I use regularly.  It also works on winnt, although I
only tried:

C:\>python 2>errors.txt

on a system I don't have python installed on.  (WinNT Terminal Server).

The different handling of arguments on win9x and the winnt families is
certainly unexpected.

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com> wrote in message
> news:9fqpii$5mk9n$1 at ID-11957.news.dfncis.de...
> > If you want to capture error output to a file, you can also try:
> >
> > c:\> python errors-catch.py 2>errors.txt
>
> That doesn't help on Windows/98 (nor on NT, I think), as would
> seem to be suggested from the 'c:\>' prompt...:
>
> D:\py21>python -c "import sys;print>>sys.stderr,sys.argv" 2>oo.txt
> ['-c', '2']
>
> D:\py21>dir oo.txt
>
>  Volume in drive D is DISCO D
>  Volume Serial Number is 4140-11E0
>  Directory of D:\py21
>
> OO       TXT             0  06-10-01  9:32p oo.txt
>          1 file(s)              0 bytes
>          0 dir(s)     354,697,216 bytes free
>
>
> The '2' becomes a program-argument and the redirection is of
> standard-output anyway.
>
>
> Alex
>
>
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