improved STDOUT | STDIN constructs -- no more broken pipe left-overs (I hope)

lib/damask/asciitable.py

@@ -43,13 +43,18 @@ class ASCIItable():
       for item in what: self.output_write(item)
     else:
       self.__IO__['output'] += [str(what)]
-      self.__IO__['buffered'] or self.output_flush()
+      return self.__IO__['buffered'] or self.output_flush()
 
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------
   def output_flush(self,
                    clear = True):
+    import sys
+    try:
       self.__IO__['output'] == [] or self.__IO__['out'].write('\n'.join(self.__IO__['output']) + '\n')
+    except IOError, e:
+      return False
     if clear: self.output_clear()
+    return True
     
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------
   def output_clear(self):
@@ -84,7 +89,7 @@ class ASCIItable():
 
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------
   def head_write(self):
-    self.output_write (['%i\theader'%(len(self.info)+1),
+    return self.output_write (['%i\theader'%(len(self.info)+1),
                               self.info,
                               '\t'.join(self.labels)])
 
@@ -118,9 +123,9 @@ class ASCIItable():
   def data_write(self):
     if len(self.data) == 0: return
     if isinstance(self.data[0],list):
-      self.output_write (['\t'.join(map(str,items)) for items in self.data])
+      return self.output_write (['\t'.join(map(str,items)) for items in self.data])
     else:
-      self.output_write ('\t'.join(map(str,self.data)))
+      return self.output_write ('\t'.join(map(str,self.data)))
 
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------
   def data_append(self,