I’ve often desired to have “optional” execution paths in my code that I could activate from outside of the function. This would be helpful in situations where I have a complex function that does several data processing steps, resulting in some scalar result. However, sometimes there is something wro…

You could try a custom logger. AFAICT log messages become nops when the log level is below the given number. See https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/stdlib/Logging/#Using-Loggers-1

Thank you very much for the both recomendations. I’ve flagged @JonasIsensee answer as this is the direction I’m proceeding. So now my workflow is using my custom VisualLogger type that encapsulates a ConsoleLogger and accumulates all the data and plots into a MultiDict instead of writing them into …

Awesome, this is exactly the kind of thing I had in mind when I designed the logging frontend, but which ironically I’ve never actually used myself. It’s great to see it in use :slight_smile:

Macro for enabling/disabling parts of code

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ericphanson July 19, 2019, 4:49pm 3

Something similar was discussed for disabling assertations, and I think the solution here might be able to be adapted to your case: @assert alternatives? - #14 by WschW

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