[Python-Dev] PEP 282: A Logging System -- comments please

Fred Drake fdrake@zope.com
Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:51:14 -0500


On 15 February 2002, Michael McLay said:
 > I scanned the PEP and didn't find a reference to the
logging package 
 > supporting logging over a network. 

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:18:09 -0500
 Greg Ward <gward@python.net> wrote:
> I think the right way to handle that would be to pass a
> file-like object
> to the logging framework, which it then write()'s to.

It seems to me that it should be trivial to map from the
logging API to syslog; it already provides for logging to
remote systems as well as filtering.

I'm sure this is already hashed out in the PEP though, so I
should be reading that instead of commenting here.  ;-)


  -Fred

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