Gimmicks and hacks to make some of my other modules more robust and less demanding of others.

Latest release 20260311: Upgrade the import of Buffer for more recent Python changes.

Short summary:

• open_append: Ghastly hack to open something for append entirely because some Linux systems do not let you open a character device for append. Tries sane 'a' and falls back through 'r+' and finally to 'w' only if path refers to a character device.

Module contents:

• debug(*a, **kw): Wrapper for debug() which does a deferred import.
• error(*a, **kw): Wrapper for error() which does a deferred import.
• exception(*a, **kw): Wrapper for exception() which does a deferred import.
• info(*a, **kw): Wrapper for info() which does a deferred import.
• log(*a, **kw): Wrapper for log() which does a deferred import.
• open_append(path): Ghastly hack to open something for append entirely because some Linux systems do not let you open a character device for append. Tries sane 'a' and falls back through 'r+' and finally to 'w' only if path refers to a character device.
• r(obj): simplistic versions of cs.lex r() and s()
• trace(*a, **kw): Wrapper for info() which does a deferred import.
• warning(*a, **kw): Wrapper for warning() which does a deferred import.

Release Log

Release 20260311: Upgrade the import of Buffer for more recent Python changes.

Release 20250428: Define Buffer from collections.abc.Buffer, or from typing.ByteString for older Pythons.

Release 20250323: Provide direct r() and s() instead of circular cs.lex import.

Release 20240316: Fixed release upload artifacts.

Release 20230331: New open_append to handle idiotic Linux do-not-open-tty-for-append semantics.

Release 20230212: Add gimmicks for cs.lex.r and cs.lex.s.

Release 20230210: DEVNULL default open for "r+b" instead of "wb".

Release 20221228: Generalise the logging function map, add trace function, bugfix logging call lookup.

Release 20220429: Add DEVNULL symbol, needed before Python 3.3.

Release 20211208: Define TimeoutError.

Release 20210306: Add simple implementations of nullcontext and SimpleNamespace.

Release 20200418.1: Initial release with logging call stubs.