Whitelist classes in verbose (-v) option

electrum/commands.py

@@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ def add_network_options(parser):
 
 def add_global_options(parser):
     group = parser.add_argument_group('global options')
-    group.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", action="store_true", dest="verbose", default=False, help="Show debugging information")
+    group.add_argument("-v", "--verbosity", dest="verbosity", default='', help="Set verbosity filter")
     group.add_argument("-D", "--dir", dest="electrum_path", help="electrum directory")
     group.add_argument("-P", "--portable", action="store_true", dest="portable", default=False, help="Use local 'electrum_data' directory")
     group.add_argument("-w", "--wallet", dest="wallet_path", help="wallet path")

electrum/interface.py

@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ def Connection(server, queue, config_path):
 
 
 class TcpConnection(threading.Thread, util.PrintError):
+    verbosity_filter = 'i'
 
     def __init__(self, server, queue, config_path):
         threading.Thread.__init__(self)

electrum/network.py

@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ class Network(util.DaemonThread):
           get_parameters(), get_server_height(), get_status_value(),
           is_connected(), set_parameters(), stop()
     """
+    verbosity_filter = 'n'
 
     def __init__(self, config=None):
         if config is None:

electrum/plugin.py

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ hooks = {}
 
 
 class Plugins(DaemonThread):
+    verbosity_filter = 'p'
 
     @profiler
     def __init__(self, config, is_local, gui_name):

electrum/util.py

@@ -164,12 +164,14 @@ class MyEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
 
 class PrintError(object):
     '''A handy base class'''
+    verbosity_filter = ''
+
     def diagnostic_name(self):
         return self.__class__.__name__
 
     def print_error(self, *msg):
-        # only prints with --verbose flag
+        if self.verbosity_filter in verbosity:
-        print_error("[%s]" % self.diagnostic_name(), *msg)
+            print_stderr("[%s]" % self.diagnostic_name(), *msg)
 
     def print_stderr(self, *msg):
         print_stderr("[%s]" % self.diagnostic_name(), *msg)
@@ -213,6 +215,7 @@ class DebugMem(ThreadJob):
 
 class DaemonThread(threading.Thread, PrintError):
     """ daemon thread that terminates cleanly """
+    verbosity_filter = 'd'
 
     def __init__(self):
         threading.Thread.__init__(self)
@@ -263,15 +266,14 @@ class DaemonThread(threading.Thread, PrintError):
         self.print_error("stopped")
 
 
-# TODO: disable
+verbosity = ''
-is_verbose = True
 def set_verbosity(b):
-    global is_verbose
+    global verbosity
-    is_verbose = b
+    verbosity = b
 
 
 def print_error(*args):
-    if not is_verbose: return
+    if not verbosity: return
     print_stderr(*args)
 
 def print_stderr(*args):

electrum/wallet.py

@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ class Abstract_Wallet(AddressSynchronizer):
 
     max_change_outputs = 3
     gap_limit_for_change = 6
+    verbosity_filter = 'w'
 
     def __init__(self, storage):
         AddressSynchronizer.__init__(self, storage)

run_electrum

@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     # config is an object passed to the various constructors (wallet, interface, gui)
     if is_android:
         config_options = {
-            'verbose': True,
+            'verbosity': '',
             'cmd': 'gui',
             'gui': 'kivy',
         }
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
         config_options['electrum_path'] = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)), 'electrum_data')
 
     # kivy sometimes freezes when we write to sys.stderr
-    set_verbosity(config_options.get('verbose') and config_options.get('gui')!='kivy')
+    set_verbosity(config_options.get('verbosity') if config_options.get('gui') != 'kivy' else '')
 
     # check uri
     uri = config_options.get('url')