Writing gimp plugins in python on windows- how do i debug? where is the output?

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I am trying to create a plug in in python for gimp. (on windows) this page http://gimpbook.com/scripting/notes.ht

Answer 1

as noted in How do I output info to the console in a Gimp python script?

add

import sys
sys.stderr = open( 'c:\\temp\\gimpstderr.txt', 'w') 
sys.stdout = open( 'c:\\temp\\gimpstdout.txt', 'w')

at the beginning of the plug in file.