Python4Kids New Tutorial: I Wanted to be a Lumberjack (logging)

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 23, 2012

When something goes wrong with a program, it is natural to try to diagnose the problem by using the print statement to check the value of variables. As your program grows in size however, this begins to get unwieldy, if only because the output of print ends up in the console and you lose it to the autoscrolling. Python offers another way to record these messages – the logging module. In its most most basic form…

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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