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

Vinay Sajip vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Sep 18 03:45:30 EDT 2003

Barry> So the idea would be to be able to write "import .logging" and Barry> definitely get the global logging package. Using underscore in Barry> the logger would mirror this mnemonic for globalness. Skip> The connection seems tenuous, at best. If I log messages to syslog and and Skip> that file is later viewed or summarized by a third party, "python" seems a Skip> lot more useful than "_" or even "stdlib".

I agree. Readability in logs is the most important consideration here, and I think a scheme such as "python." + makes it very clear where an event originated. Of course this would just be a prefix; a module could log to any name under this namespace, e.g. "python.asyncore.socket" for socket-related events in asyncore.

Vinay

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