idiom for debug code? [1/1]

[Dan Perl]

"Dan Perl" <danperl at rogers.com> wrote in message 
news:yeadnZwsvvKa7cLcRVn-pA at rogers.com...
> Thanks, Ian.  It's late Saturday for me now so I will look more at the 
> code later, but so far what I get from what you sent is only dprint and 
> that is a logging utility.  That's not what I was looking for.  OTOH, I 
> see that your posting was probably only a first installment, so I am 
> looking forward to more details, including more parts from your utility 
> module.

I just realized that maybe you meant that posting to be the only one and not 
an installment, hence the one of ONE ([1/1]).  Too bad.  Could you post also 
the rest of your utility script?  Or would that break some copyright (do you 
own it?)?

> The solution that you are using for the dprint utility involves a global 
> variable.  How do you change its value?  Is that still by making a change 
> in the code, even if the change is only one place?  I would like a 
> solution that does not involve any change in the code and is determined 
> strictly at run-time.  I was thinking of something like an environment 
> variable or a configuration attribute.  Of course, your solution can be 
> adapted to set the global variable based on an environment variable or 
> based on configuration.
>
> As for rewriting your code, did you take a look at the newsgroup thread 
> about the new logging utility?
>
> Dan