[Python-Dev] Want to co-design and implement a logging module? (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh@python.net
11 Feb 2002 15:31:53 +0000

Greg Ward <gward@python.net> writes:

On 04 February 2002, Trent Mick volunteered to "do something" about a standard logging module for Python: > How about I try to have a PEP together within a week or two, and perhaps a > working base implementation?

Well, it's been exactly 7 days. Trent, are you halfway done yet? ;-) (Yes, I've been thinking that the solution to the Distutils' verbosity problem lies somewhere down this road.)

But I believe that 1.5.2 compatibility is still relavent for distutils, so a logging module in 2.3 is not especially helpful, unless one can come up with some scheme whereby the standalone distutils packages can use a bundled logger and the 2.3 distutils use the library one.

I had a go at implementing a very KISS approach to distutils logging this morning and found what I was doing conflicted horribly with distutils' current practice, so I stopped.

Cheers, M.

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