print("message") alternative

Calling error("message") will stop execution, so how do you output several messages?

I had hoped print would do the job, but it seems that stdout is not directed to the message log, which is probably a good measure to avoid flooding the message log with samplecount * print("message"),

However I'm missing such a feature a lot when debugging a script: could you perhaps add some sort of custom print function that is allowed to output once per execution/rendering? I.e. much like error, only it will not stop execution

I have scoured the help documentation, have looked at others' example code hoping they used this, and still have no idea why my stdout function call gets an error or where the TEMP folder is; do you think you could show an example code when answering questions like this, so if newbies who take the intiative to find the answers themselves don't have to ask the same question twice because the answer is mystically mysterious in their eyes?

P.S. I really don't know how to use stdout or where the TEMP folder is, can you help?

I found my log file here:

C:\Documents and Settings\<your profile name>\Local Settings\Temp\Filter Forge x86.log

FF, you should consider adding an option for clearing that logfile when a rendering starts. It seems you just append to that logfile during the whole FF session

I'm looking at a 233 MB logfile right now - Yes I know I shouldn't put print calls inside get_sample .. but it is very helpful when debugging.

Beside from that "print" is not in the unsafe function category, meaning that it is possible to submit a filter that might fill up the disk with a huge logfile...