[Python-Dev] Logging enhancements (original) (raw)

Neal Norwitz nnorwitz at gmail.com
Tue Jan 10 00:06:04 CET 2006

On 1/9/06, Shane Hathaway <shane at hathawaymix.org> wrote:

I'd like to create a patch for the logging package, but before I do, I need to know whether someone else is working on the package and whether my patch is likely to be accepted. Is there another group I should talk to?

Vinay (copied) maintains it separately. He's the best person to talk to AFAIK. He maintains compatability with older pythons, possibly 1.5, I don't recall. Check PEP 291.

Specifically, I want to change the following:

There are several bugs (any maybe patches) on SF related to logging. AFAIK, they are all assigned to Vinay. It would be great if you could fix those as well.

n

- The logging.config.fileConfig function has bare excepts that hide configuration errors. I'd like to remove the bare excepts and break up fileConfig for clarity.

- I'd like to make it possible to configure the format of exception tracebacks. Some logs want compressed tracebacks like Medusa; others want extra information like Zope. - There is no support for external log rotation. There is plenty of support for Python rotating logs directly, but permission settings often make that impossible. Long-running Python processes need to accept a signal which notifies them when an external tool rotates the logs. - The logging documentation is lacking somewhat. For example, it fails to mention that the logging handlers are in the 'handlers' module, which I only learned by searching the source code. Shane

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