Runs on non-win32 systems now, without producing any output.

Author: dougransom

README.md

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 # pydbugstring
 
-Provides a function to call Windows OutputDebugString with any Python Object.  
-Provides a handler for the Python Logging Module which sends logging to OutputDebugString.
+Provides a function OutputDebugString to call:
+    - on win32 platforms, calls the ctypes.windll.kernel32.OutputDebugStringW with any Python Object, after converting that object to a string.  
+    - on other platforms, converts the argument to a string and discards it, returns 0
+
+Provides a handler for the Python Logging Module which sends logging to OutputDebugString.  On platforms other than win32, the logging output is disccarded.
 
 
 The output can be viewed using the [DebugView](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/debugview) program from the SysInternals  package from Microsoft.

src/pydebugstring/__init__.py

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 "function to write python obects to OutputDebugString on windows"
-__version__ = '1.0.0.1'
+__version__ = '1.0.0.2'
 from .output import outputDebugString
 from .outputdebugstringhandler import OutputDebugStringHandler

src/pydebugstring/output.py

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 import ctypes
-W32OutputDebugString = ctypes.windll.kernel32.OutputDebugStringW
+from sys import platform
+if platform == "win32":
+    W32OutputDebugString = ctypes.windll.kernel32.OutputDebugStringW 
+else:
+    def W32OutputDebugString(arg):
+        """Dummy function as an alternative to W32OutputDebugString in case code using this module 
+         is run on platfomrs other than win32.  W32OutputDebugString does nothing, returns 0.
+        """
+        return 0
 
 def outputDebugString(to_show):
     """