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I've deployed a Bottle-based Python web app.

In my app, I issue print statements for debugging, and I would like to receive those print statements as they're executed inside the console I have open in the editor here on pythonanywhere--I assume that's why you have the ability to open a console window inside the editor.

How do I get the print statements inside the live console instead of everything being piped into the three separate log files?

You can't run a web app from a console on PythonAnywhere. You can put some additional logging and redirect it to a custom file (e.g. by using Python logging library), but you will always need to look at some file to see the logs. You can do it in a Bash console, using tail command, which allows to see how files are being updated (you can watch several files at a time). The usual logs for your web app are located at /var/log. The only constraint here would be that if your web app would produce too much logs in a short time, the console could be automatically killed.

Thank you for the tail tip. I'll look into that and how to produce my own logs.

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