On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Stephen Hartke <har...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Marco Streng <marco.str...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> I'm doing a long computation in Sage and I'd like to be able to print >> some status information to the screen, such as the number of database >> entries that I have tested, or the total time spent on different parts >> of an algorithm. > > I had the same problem, and I now use the "screen" command. It essentially > multiplexes a text terminal (which is useful for running Sage in the > background after you log off, or being able to view/control the process > remotely), but can also be used to create a long scrollback buffer or for > logging the screen output to a file. The last is very handy, since then you > have a record of the commands inputted to Sage and the output. Also, you > can set the delay for how often the log buffer is flushed. Thus, if you > have a process that outputs just a small update periodically, you don't have > to wait until the disk buffers are flushed to see the latest output. >
Just a quick note. In Python (Sage) if you do import sys sys.stdout.flush() then the stdout disk buffer is flushed. This is useful if stdout is being redirected out a file. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
