[Python-Dev] Consistent logging in the standard library (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Sep 17 17:56:50 EDT 2003

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 17:43, Vinay Sajip wrote:

Matthew Barnes, who kicked off the original thread, prefers "stdlib" as the prefix to use, rather than "python".

What about _ (underscore)?

One of my half-baked totally unoriginal PEP ideas for Python 2.4 would be a syntax for forcing imports from the standard library. E.g. say I have a foo package, and inside there I've got a foo/logging.py module. Say there's also a foo/bar.py module and it wants to import the global logging package. How can it do that? "import logging" does a relative import.

So the idea would be to be able to write "import _.logging" and definitely get the global logging package. Using underscore in the logger would mirror this mnemonic for globalness.

-Barry

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