Using logging module for conditional nested logs

[Reckoner]

On Nov 4, 1:30 pm, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Nov 4, 7:40 pm, Reckoner <recko... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I hope that made some sense.
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> Not especially :-(
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> Sorry I don't understand exactly what you mean, because I find your
> terminology confusing. For example, "logger that is attached to foo2"
> - loggers are not attached to functions. "It responds to the 'root'
> logger" - what responds? What's meant by "respond"?
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> Loggers correspond to specific code components in an application.
> Normally these areas are modules and sometimes they're classes.
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> You can certainly treat functions as areas but this will typically
> become unwieldy in any sizeable application. It doesn't (in general)
> make sense to have a specific logger for foo1 for use only when it's
> called by foo2. These seem like anti-patterns to me.
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> Handlers are attached to loggers to make events logged via those
> loggers available to different audiences - via console, file, email
> etc.
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> If you want to log that foo1 is being called by foo2, you can do this.
> For example, you could have a utility function which walks (a
> sufficient part of) the call stack to see the function call hierarchy,
> then log this as additional information (e.g. using the 'extra'
> parameter to the logging call). You can attach Filters to loggers and
> handlers which use this information to decide where and whether to
> actually record the event.
>
> As well as the Python logging documentation, you may also find the
> following link useful:
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> http://plumberjack.blogspot.com/2009/09/python-logging-101.html
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> Regards,
>
> Vinay Sajip

I appreciate your patience, as I am new to this.

Your comments have put me on the right track. I will look at the link
you specify.

Thanks again.