Often when I am coding I just like to print little things (mostly the current value of variables) out to console. I don't see anything like this for Google App Engine, although I note that the Google App Engine Launcher does have a Log terminal. Is there any way to write to said Terminal, or to some other terminal, using Google App Engine?

You'll want to use the Python's standard logging module.

import logginglogging.info("hello")
logging.debug("hi") # this won't show up by default

To see calls to logging.debug() in the GoogleAppEngineLauncher Logs console, you have to first add the flag --dev_appserver_log_level=debug to your app. However, beware that you're going to see a lot of debug noise from the App Engine SDK itself. The full set of levels are:

• debug
• info
• warning
• error
• critical

You can add the flag by double clicking the app and then dropping it into the Extra Flags field.