[Python-Dev] Stdlib Logging questions (PEP 337 SoC)

[Jeremy Hylton]

On 6/6/06, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> Jim Jewett wrote:
>
> > For pkgutil in particular, the change is that instead of writing to
> > stderr (which can scroll off and get lost), it will write to the
> > errorlog.  In a truly default setup, that still ends up writing to
> > stderr.
>
> umm.  if pkgutil fails to open a pkg file, isn't it rather likely that
> the program will terminate with an ImportError a few milliseconds later?

Maybe a mean time of a few milliseconds later.  It really depends on
the operating system's scheduler.  If the failure occurs just at the
end of a scheduler quantum, the process may not run again for some
time.  This would happen regardless of whether the operating system
was modern.

Jeremy