From 408a36d5a5fa762b2a2df657266bdaab0c5b9a71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ronny Abraham <this.ronny@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 15:23:28 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] created new method printerr 	modified:   modules/utils.py

---
 modules/utils.py | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/modules/utils.py b/modules/utils.py
index a27eb0c..d34d51c 100644
--- a/modules/utils.py
+++ b/modules/utils.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import os
+import sys
 import errno
 import logging
 
@@ -12,10 +13,27 @@ from fabric.operations import run, sudo
 def printvar(name, value, exit=False):
     print "%s : %s" % (name, value)
     if exit:
-        import sys
         sys.exit()
 
 
+def printerr(message="", errcode=-2, exit=True):
+    """ prints error message and error code then exits
+
+    Keyword Arguments:
+        message -- error message
+        errcode -- the error code
+        exit -- if we do a sys.exit
+    """
+
+    message = "Error\n\t{message}\n\tExiting with code: {errcode}\n".format(
+        message=message, errcode=errcode)
+
+    print
+    print message
+    print
+    sys.exit(errcode)
+
+
 def loggify(module, func, prefix=""):
     """
     I'm tired of rewriting this logging code in every single function, so I
@@ -350,7 +368,7 @@ def link_create(path_src, path_dst, debug=False):
         else:
             msg_error = "something exists at dst - '%s' " \
                 "- and it's not a link\n kicking out".format(path_dst)
-            import sys
+
             sys.exit(msg_error)
 
     if debug:
@@ -371,7 +389,6 @@ def prompt_continue(message="Do you want to continue? Y/n", default="Y"):
     """
 
     from fabric.operations import prompt
-    import sys
 
     prompt_val = prompt(message)