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

[Barry Warsaw]

On Dec 07, 2010, at 04:59 PM, Robert Kern wrote:

>As a library author, I would dearly love to just add logging liberally
>without placing any additional burden to the users of my library. If my users
>wants to read those logs, he will configure logging. If he doesn't, he
>won't. With the current behavior, I can't do that. If I add logging, he has
>to add code just to silence a message that is meaningless to him (after I get
>the support emails asking if things are broken and explain how to silence
>it). If I add a NullHandler, I remove the ability for him to use
>logging.basicConfig(), the easiest and most straightforward way for him to
>add logging to his application.

+1

-Barry
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