[Python-Dev] Using logging in the stdlib and its unit tests

[Łukasz Langa]

Wiadomość napisana przez Antoine Pitrou w dniu 2010-12-07, o godz. 22:19:

>> If you're writing an application then the "No handlers could be found" message is actually useful because there's hardly any reason no to include one.
> 
> Why do you say that? Not having to add a handler is certainly useful
> when you are doing some quick prototyping or simply writing a script
> (situations in which you still want to get error messages displayed
> properly by the libraries).
> 
>> One way or the other, we should really default to the convenience of application developers. This is currently the case.
> 
> Why wouldn't there be a default convenience of printing out errors?
> It's already the case for the root handler, so why would other handler
> be treated differently?
> 
>>>> import logging
>>>> logging.debug("foo")
>>>> logging.error("bar")
> ERROR:root:bar

If you're arguing that instead of writing "No handler", our logging library could just as easily default to a simplistic stderr handler for errors, then I agree. Both the convenience and consistency arguments you provided are convincing. See, that was 3 times a con* in one sentence!

Then again, warning an application developer that some handler is not configured that probably should be, is still valuable IMHO. Unless explicitly silenced.

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