Feature Request: Silent spotpy call

[florianjehn]

Spotpy prints out a lot of things each time you create a new sampler and run it. This is useful if you want to run one model several times, however it slows down things considerably when you want to run a lot of models after another. It would be useful if you could provide spotpy with keywords that silences this output.

[MuellerSeb]

A good idea would be to include a verbose keyword-argument here:

spotpy/spotpy/algorithms/_algorithm.py

Line 211 in 34d1ad3

def __init__(self, spot_setup, dbname=None, dbformat=None, dbinit=True,

which is True by default, so everything will work as usual.

Then every print statement has to be hunt down and should be equipped with:

if self.verbose:
    print(statement)

My two cents.
Cheers, Sebastian

[philippkraft]

Better solution in my opinion: Search for all print functions and exchange them with logging.info, logging.warning, logging.error and logging.debug, depending on the importance of the message. That is the way how libraries like spotpyshould communicate with the user. I wish we knew about this, when we started. The user can then change the logging level with logging.basicConfig. See: https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.html

[cpwnd]

I opened a pull request #244 and hope it could help to solve this issue.