koepnick / debug_printer

debug_printer

A very simple Python module that allows for printing text to a file with ANSI color strings.

The intent is to be able to tail a file in order to provide an additional source of information. For those times when you need information without clogging up your generic output and dropping into a debug session is unnecessary.

I am intentionally not using the native logging system. This is intended as a simple drop-in module with very basic support for my own coding workflow.

Note

It is generally preferable to drop into a PDB shell for debugging. This is not meant to replace that. Please don't allow printing everything to become a habit. The road to hell is paved with print() statements.

Installation

1. cd into a temporary directory
2. git clone https://github.io/koepnick/debug_printer
3. If using a virtual environment: python setup.py install

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3. If using "globally": python setup.py install --user

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Please, please do not install to your system site packages. The road to hell is also paved with sudo pip install

Even installing under uid 0 in a container is a seriously bad idea.

This goes for all 3rd party packages.

Features

• Basic coloring
• Stateless singleton
• Symbolic icons
• UTF-8 icon fallback
• User-defined colors
• Settings file
• Vim functions to write and populate line numbers
• Object ancestry
• List enumeration
  • Kinda working but no tabs

• PyPi submission