outputdebugstring python

gistfile1.py

# Original code by Dan Brotherston
import sys
import mmap
import struct
import win32event
import thread
import time

def OutputDebug(threadName, delay):
  buffer_ready = win32event.CreateEvent(None, 0, 0, "DBWIN_BUFFER_READY")
  data_ready = win32event.CreateEvent(None, 0, 0, "DBWIN_DATA_READY")
  buffer = mmap.mmap(0, 4096, "DBWIN_BUFFER", mmap.ACCESS_WRITE)

  while True:
    # Signal that we're ready to accept debug output
    win32event.SetEvent(buffer_ready)
    if win32event.WaitForSingleObject(data_ready, win32event.INFINITE) == win32event.WAIT_OBJECT_0:
      buffer.seek(0)
      # The first DWORD is the process id which generated the output
      process_id, = struct.unpack("L", buffer.read (4))
      data = buffer.read(4092)
      if "\0" in data:
        str1 = data[:data.index("\0")]
      else:
        str1 = data
      
      if str1.find("##") >= 0:
        ticks = time.localtime()
        print "Pid%d [%d:%d:%d]: %s" % (process_id, ticks.tm_hour, ticks.tm_min, ticks.tm_sec, str1)

try:
   thread.start_new_thread(OutputDebug, ("Thread-1", 0, ))
except:
   print "Error: unable to start thread"

while 1:
   pass