hltGetConfiguration: send errors to stderr instead of stdout

davidsheffield · Jul 14, 2015 · bf74269 · bf74269
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commit bf74269
Showing 1 changed file with 4 additions and 8 deletions.
diff --git a/HLTrigger/Configuration/python/Tools/confdb.py b/HLTrigger/Configuration/python/Tools/confdb.py
@@ -74,10 +74,8 @@ def getRawConfigurationFromDB(self):
 
     data, err = self.converter.query( *args )
     if 'ERROR' in err or 'Exhausted Resultset' in err or 'CONFIG_NOT_FOUND' in err:
-        print "%s: error while retriving the HLT menu" % os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])
-        print
-        print err
-        print
+        sys.stderr.write("%s: error while retrieving the HLT menu\n\n" % os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]))
+        sys.stderr.write(err + "\n\n")
         sys.exit(1)
     self.data = data
 
@@ -98,10 +96,8 @@ def getPathList(self):
 
     data, err = self.converter.query( *args )
     if 'ERROR' in err or 'Exhausted Resultset' in err or 'CONFIG_NOT_FOUND' in err:
-        print "%s: error while retriving the list of paths from the HLT menu" % os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])
-        print
-        print err
-        print
+        sys.stderr.write("%s: error while retrieving the list of paths from the HLT menu\n\n" % os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]))
+        sys.stderr.write(err + "\n\n")
         sys.exit(1)
     filter = re.compile(r' *= *cms.(End)?Path.*')
     paths  = [ filter.sub('', line) for line in data.splitlines() if filter.search(line) ]