final question: logging to stdout and updating files

[Littlefield, Tyler]

pHello all:
I've seen frameworks like django reload files when it detects that 
they've been changed; how hard would it be to make my engine reload 
files that it detects were changed? I'm also curious how hard it would 
be to build in some error recovery. For example right now when an 
exception occurs, the player is sometimes just left hanging. It's a lot 
harder with Python for me, because I don't get the compile-time errors 
that I would with c++ for example to know that I did something wrong; 
while that's not always useful/and by far it doesn't catch everything, 
it does help. I'm familiar with things like pychecker, but it seems to 
be reporting a lot of issues that aren't issues. For example, I have a 
world module which is the core of the engine; it handles players, as 
well as keeps tracks of all rooms that are loaded in the game and that. 
Because player and world would have circular imports, I just pass the 
world object into player functions like logon/create. Pychecker tells me 
that the world parameter (which is a local var at that point) shadows 
the world variable in world; world is a singleton, so when you import 
world it just has a world = World() at the bottom of the module.

also: I have the following code:
     logging.basicConfig(filename=path.join("logs", "mud.log"), 
level=logging.DEBUG)
     logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
     logger.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler())
I like it displaying to stderr since usually when I'm doing this I'm in 
screen bouncing back and forth between the output and the tt++ session, 
but right now I can't get a couple of things; I'm not sure how to set it 
to log and all other messages to stderr as I did for the file, and I'd 
like to use a rotating log handler so that it'll rotate when the files 
are say above 16 KB or something. Is it possible to do something like 
this; perhaps make it compress the file before it writes to disk, or 
call a command to do so, so that it wouldn't hang the entire mud while 
it compresses?
Thanks, and sorry again for all the questions.

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Take care,
Ty
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