PyWart: The problem with "print"

[Michael Torrie]

On 06/02/2013 12:18 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
> On Sunday, June 2, 2013 12:49:02 PM UTC-5, Dan Sommers wrote:
>> On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 03:20:52 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:04 AM, Rick Johnson
>> [...] Or use the logging module.  It's easy to get going quickly 
>> (just call logging.basicConfig at startup time), and with a little
>> care and feeding, you can control the output in more ways than can
>> fit into the margin. Oh, yeah, I'm sure it introduces some
>> overhead.  So does everything else.
> 
> I hate log files, at least during development or testing. I prefer to
> debug on the command line or using my IDE. Log files are for release
> time, not development.

Except that it's not.  Have you even looked at what the logging module
is?  It most certainly can log to stderr if you provide no logging
handler to write to a file.