[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 282 comments (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:45:00 -0600 

Jim> It can't be YAGNI if there is a need.

Like many other people who have implemented web server type beasts, I added a logging capability to my XML-RPC server. I will wager that if you survey others who have written similar tools (from small servers to big things on the scale of Webware, Quixote, or Zope) that they have all implemented some sort of logging facility. It is definitely not something people aren't going to need (I hate that acronym - I'll keep spelling it out, thank you).

Mine logger was written just for use with a single application, so doesn't have the bells and whistles others have apparently found indispensable. I would dump it in a flash if something was made available in the standard library even if it meant rewriting every line that makes calls to my current logger. My only functional request is that it be able to integrate with the Unix syslog facility so I can control where messages go with the same "tool" (a text editor + /etc/syslog.conf) that I've used for years.

Skip