[Python-Dev] Redirecting warnings.showwarning to logging (original) (raw)

Vinay Sajip vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Nov 22 12:12:22 CET 2008

Brett Cannon has suggested [1] that the logging package should provide an implementation of warnings.showwarning which redirects to logging. Here are my first thoughts about how this might work:

A new function, showwarning( message, category, filename, lineno[, file]) will be added to the logging package. To redirect all warnings to the logging system, it will only be necessary to do the following:

warnings.showwarning = logging.showwarning

The implementation of logging.showwarning will call formatwarning(message, category, filename, lineno) and will log the resulting string to a warnings logger named "stdlib.warnings" (or perhaps "std.warnings") with level logging.WARNING. The optional file argument to logging.showwarning is only for signature compatibility with warnings.showwarning and will be ignored; in order to configure logging of warnings to any particular destination, the logging configuration will need to add appropriate handlers to the warnings logger. The precise format of the logging message will be determined by the logging configuration in effect, i.e. any formatters configured for the handlers attached to the logger.

Does this sound like a reasonable approach? Can someone please suggest any improvements, or let me know if I've missed anything?

Regards,

Vinay Sajip

[1] http://bugs.python.org/issue4384

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