Re: [Docutils-develop] let the writer issue a warning

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

On 2009-05-13, David Goodger wrote:
> 2009/5/13 Guenter Milde <mi...@us...>:
>> what do I need to insert so that the writer can issue a warning for some
>> non-supported feature.

> You use the docutils.utils.Reporter system message mechanism. See
> "Error Handling" in PEP 258 for a description of the levels. Docutils
> has a mechanism for passing or filtering system messages based on
> level; use it. It's not used in the writers now, only in the parser
> and the transforms. A writer-dependent transform could handle this
> error reporting task.

I found an example in the odf writer, usage is as simple as ::

  self.document.reporter.warning("Error: Can't open file %s." % (source, ))

without need for a writer-dependent transform or special setup :-)

Thanks,

Günter