Added program name suffix to console messages.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/a2x.py b/a2x.py
index c006adf..3776a7c 100755
--- a/a2x.py
+++ b/a2x.py
@@ -169,6 +169,8 @@ def shell(cmd, raise_error=True):
     If raise_error is True then a non-zero return terminates the application.
     '''
     if os.name == 'nt':
+        # TODO: this is probably unnecessary, see:
+        # http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc/browse_frm/thread/9442ee0c419f1242
         # Windows doesn't like running scripts directly so explicitly
         # specify python interpreter.
         # Extract first (quoted or unquoted) argument.
diff --git a/asciidoc.py b/asciidoc.py
index 5dfb2df..042ad21 100755
--- a/asciidoc.py
+++ b/asciidoc.py
@@ -144,6 +144,8 @@ class Message:
     """
     Message functions.
     """
+    PROG = os.path.basename(os.path.splitext(__file__)[0])
+
     def __init__(self):
         self.linenos = None     # Used to globally override line numbers.
         self.messages = []
@@ -151,7 +153,7 @@ class Message:
     def stderr(self,line=''):
         self.messages.append(line)
         if __name__ == '__main__':
-            sys.stderr.write(line+os.linesep)
+            sys.stderr.write('%s: %s%s' % (self.PROG, line, os.linesep))
 
     def verbose(self, msg,linenos=True):
         if config.verbose: