[Python-Dev] Re: logging package -- rename warn to warning? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Sun, 19 Jan 2003 20:15:09 -0500

>>OK, that's fine - warning/WARNING it is. For consistency, though, we should >>also lose fatal/FATAL which are currently synonyms for critical/CRITICAL. > > Yes, except I find fatal/FATAL so much easier to write. Do we really > need the "political correctness" of critical/CRITICAL?

Are you seriously arguing for saving a few keystrokes? After adding three to warn? =)

Not at all. I think I've seen many loggers with a series of levels going something like warning, error, fatal. I've never seen 'critical' before in this context. Thus I find that it takes more mental work to remember or interpret 'critical' than 'fatal'.

It's not political correctness, it's technical correctness. I say do it right for all the calls or leave it as is (or revert to Java compatibility).

I know that 'critical' is technically more correct, but somehow I don't care.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)