web status display for long running program

[John Lenton]

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Brian Roberts wrote:
| I have a command line Python program that sometimes takes a bit
| (several minutes) to run.  I want to provide an optional method for an
| impatient user (me!) to check the status of the program.  The type and
| amount of status information doesn't fit nicely into a --verbose or
| logger -- either too little or too much information at different
| points.

dd and pppd (and probably others) solve this problem by registering
a signal handler that either toggles debug or prints status
information to stderr.

- --
John Lenton (john at except.com.ar) -- Random fortune:
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do.
Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
		-- Mark Twain
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