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

Jeremy Hylton jeremy at alum.mit.edu
Tue Jun 6 16:36:59 CEST 2006


On 6/6/06, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:

Jim Jewett wrote:

> For pkgutil in particular, the change is that instead of writing to > stderr (which can scroll off and get lost), it will write to the > errorlog. In a truly default setup, that still ends up writing to > stderr. umm. if pkgutil fails to open a pkg file, isn't it rather likely that the program will terminate with an ImportError a few milliseconds later?

Maybe a mean time of a few milliseconds later. It really depends on the operating system's scheduler. If the failure occurs just at the end of a scheduler quantum, the process may not run again for some time. This would happen regardless of whether the operating system was modern.

Jeremy



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