PEP 282: A Logging System -- comments please

[phil hunt]

On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 23:50:04 GMT, Edward K. Ream <edream at tds.net> wrote:
>PEP 282 is more complex and less flexible than it could be.  Instead,
>Python's standard logging system could well use dynamic tracing.  

I recently wrote a logging system as part of my Herbrip application.

I'm not sure that the python standard library needs a built-in 
logging system. Sure, it'll be useful to some people if done well 
and if it integrates in with logging in Unix-like OSes. But it is 
hardly rocket science to write one from scratch -- my logging.py is 
200 lines long (including comments and blank lines) and wasn't 
mentally taxing to write. Furthermore it does logging in a way 
specific to Herbrip; a generalised solution would need to be 
extensively modified to do the functionality I weant, so it 
might not be worth learning its API to use it.

I would suggest that the proponent of this system writes it, gets it 
used in several packages, makes changes and improvments based on 
comments received, then proposes adding it to the standard library.


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