On 22 February 2012 11:24, Bináris <wikiposta@gmail.com> wrote:
  1. Let's introduce a new config parameter suppress with default False.
  2. pywikibot.output should return immediately upon detecting suppress=True. One central handle for majority of screen outputs.
How would this be different from

python bot.py 2>&1 > /dev/null

?

Furthermore, the logging module is *not* difficult and a lot of useful wrapper functions for pywikipedia already exist in the rewrite branch: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/pywikipedia/branches/rewrite/pywikibot/bot.py?view=markup

(around line 217)

Best,
Merlijn