webstats.py 4.0: Internal Maintenance Specification

This function sends a string to the standard error stream, and also appends it to a cumulative log file.

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def message ( text ):
    """Send a message to stderr and ERROR_LOG.

      [ text is a string ->
          sys.stderr  +:=  text
          file ERROR_LOG  +:=  text ]
    """
    sys.stderr.write ( text )
    logFile  =  open ( ERROR_LOG, "a" )
    logFile.write ( text )
    logFile.close()