[Python-Dev] Stdlib Logging questions (PEP 337 SoC) (original) (raw)

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Tue Jun 6 03:04:12 CEST 2006


On 6/4/06, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

can we please delay the import until it's actually needed? i.e., until after some logging option is enabled?

I have asked her to make this change.

I don't like the extra conditional dance it causes, but I agree that not wanting to log is a valid use case.

On the other hand, the one-time import cost is pretty low for a long-running process, and eventually gets paid if any other module calls logging. Would it make more sense to offer a null package that can be installed earlier in the search path if you want to truly disable logging?

-jJ



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