[PATCH] nmbug-status: print config errors to stderr

Jani Nikula jani at nikula.org
Sat Oct 3 00:57:56 PDT 2015


Particularly scripted usage with stdout redirection can be confusing
if errors are printed to stdout instead of stderr.
---
 devel/nmbug/nmbug-status | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status b/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status
index a289798e3cc1..b36b6ad33859 100755
--- a/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status
+++ b/devel/nmbug/nmbug-status
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ args = parser.parse_args()
 try:
     config = read_config(path=args.config)
 except ConfigError as e:
-    print(e)
+    print(e, file=sys.stderr)
     sys.exit(1)
 
 header_template = config['meta'].get('header', '''<!DOCTYPE html>
-- 
2.1.4



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