How do you prefer to format output of your console scripts? I mean output produced during application run (log, stdout).
BG: I have a python script that takes a data, processes it, updates some related data in my database and outputs progress. I can style output in various ways:
************ Starting programm X ************
Fetching 450 lands... Done
540 local lands found
syncronizing [-------- ] 10%
Done
Capitalized output or all letters in lower case? Indentation applied to output or not? What about visual sugar like dashes or hashes? Progress bars like in wget?
I understand that it's kind of design, but in Web we have some basic rules, we have usability, and we have no rules in console output art. What Jacob Nilsen says about output of console scripts?