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I'm writing pre-queue script in python to clear up disk space before downloading. I'm outputting to the console (using the print keyword) like I would for a post-processing script.  Will I be able to see the output of the pre-queue script in the download history or should I be outputting to a log file instead?

Also, exit codes...
"If the script has an exit code other than 0, it's assumed the script failed and the NZB will be accepted.
Exit code 0 will make SABnzbd inspect the returned output."

I basically need to tell SABnzbd to either go ahead and process the NZB or don't.  0 to go ahead, -1 to stop?

Thanks for adding this feature by the way, it's just what I needed!

You won't see the console output in the log.
A trivial accept script for Windows is this:
"echo 0" will refuse the NZB.
The exit code is inspected only to prevent a failing script from blocking new entries.

BTW: If your disk is full, do you really want to refuse the NZB's and therefor lose them?
You can set a threshold below which SABnzbd will automatically stop downloading.

I'm writing the script to interface with XBMC. Basically it will free enough space for the new download or if no more space can be freed then send a notice to XBMC.

Now that I think about it though it would be nice if SABnzbd would queue the nzb until the user clears up enough space for the download.  I can probably accomplish this by having my script always echo 1 and and set a threshold limit in SABnzbd.  Yeah?  If the threshold is reached and the download gets auto-paused will I have to manually start the download again after I've cleared some space or will it automatically un-pause after it detects enough space for it?

What you describe will work.
Only it won't automatically resume once disk space is available again.