Hi Carl,

We currently limit output to the last 1,000 lines written. See http://docs.picloud.com/client_adv.html#read-output for more information.

To get around this limit, set sys.stdout and sys.stderr to open files.  If you write to ~/shared/afile you will always be able to read from that file in the future.

e.g. In your logging job, start with:

sys.stdout = open('shared/stdout.%s' % uniqueid, 'w')
sys.stderr = open('shared/stderr.%s' % uniqueid, 'w')

Then you can read those files as follows:

def readFiles(id):
	output = fopen('shared/stdout.%s' % id)
	error = fopen('shared/stderr.%s' % id)
	return output.read(), error.read() 
jid = cloud.call(readFiles, the_unique_id_you_used) 
stout, stderr = cloud.result(jid) 

You could also write these to cloud.files in a similiar way.

Please let us know if this technique resolves your concerns and if you have any further questions.

Thanks,

Aaron Staley

PiCloud, Inc.

cool.  thanks.