Add a verbosef() display function

Add a verbosef() display function to do formatted verbose output.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

diff --git a/suite/lib/output.py b/suite/lib/output.py
index fe5b93235353361be4a415fd779b7ad3573d386f..2258d4bd83ebe3948cd0e557775e30acaea477e9 100644 (file)
--- a/suite/lib/output.py
+++ b/suite/lib/output.py
@@ -85,6 +85,12 @@ def verbose(*args, **kwargs):
         for i in args:
             sys.stdout.write(str(i))
 
+def verbosef(formatstr, *args):
+    global verbosity
+    if verbosity:
+        sys.stdout.write("** ")
+        sys.stdout.write(formatstr.format(*args))
+
 def verbose_cont(*args, **kwargs):
     global verbosity
     if verbosity: