[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 282 comments

[Vinay Sajip]

[Neal Norwitz]
> You could have the logging methods return an int/bool,
> 1 if succesfully logged, 0 on failure.  Let the caller
> decide what to do.  You could even return a failure
> object or None.  The failure object would contain
> (or be) the exception/problem.
This violates the principle that logging should be "set and forget". Having
the logger fail silently has, in past experience, caused fewer problems than
having to handle errors from the logging system - yet another headache for
the developer!
Regards

Vinay