improvements for the logging package

[Peter Otten]

Thomas Heller wrote:

>> OK, it's not right at the top of the docs, but the example at
>>
>> http://docs.python.org/lib/minimal-example.html
>>
>> has been there for a while, and if you think it can be made clearer,
>> please suggest how.
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something, but the code from the example doesn't work
> for me:
> 
> 
>>>> import logging
>>>>
>>>> logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG,
> ...                     format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(message)s',
> ...                     filename='/tmp/myapp.log',
> ...                     filemode='w')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 4, in ?
> TypeError: basicConfig() takes no arguments (4 given)
>>>>

Are you perhaps trying to teach the 2.3 library a trick from the 2.4 docs?

Peter