PEP 282: A Logging System -- comments please

[Edward K. Ream]

> > Dynamic tracing is trivial to implement.  More importantly, it is
> > simpler to use and more flexible than any static scheme such as the one
> > described in 282.
> 
> except that in real systems, the end user couldn't care less
> about what/when/how your Python functions are called.
> 
> they do care about syslog-compatibility, severity levels, and
> trivial things like getting the same logging messages also after
> you've refactored your program...

I was talking about functionality, not packaging.  Naturally, a logger
would be a class.

Edward
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