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Mon, 26 Jan 2004

Tip for debugging plugin code in Pyblosxom

If you're writing plugins and you need a place to do some debug printing, the easiest thing to do is to toss a "$debugprint" variable in your foot.html file (or whatever flavour file you want to toss it in). Then every time you want to print a debug statement, do something like this:

      request = args["request"]
      data = request.getData()
      debugprint = data.get("debugprint", "")
      data["debugprint"] = debugprint + "\nyour print statement here"
   

The neat thing about this is that you can leave the $debugprint in your flavour template file when you're done. If the variable is not defined or it doesn't have any data, it gets removed.

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Posted by Zoom.Quiet on Sat Jan 28 03:28:48 2006
Yeah!
in my developing,
i define py['blog_debug'] = "DEBUG::" in config;
and in script:
data["debug"] = "%s
%s
%s"%(datadir
  ,str(pyhttp["QUERY_STRING"])
  ,walkdir)
so in templet usage $debug export debug info.

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