[Python-Dev] A new way to configure logging (original) (raw)

Olemis Lang olemis at gmail.com
Thu Oct 8 16:26:17 CEST 2009

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Glenn Linderman <v+python at g.nevcal.com> wrote:

On approximately 10/7/2009 10:45 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Vinay Sajip:

Glenn Linderman <v+python g.nevcal.com> writes:

But DictConfigurator the name seems misleading... like you are configuring how dicts work, rather than how logs work.  Maybe with more context this is not a problem, but if it is a standalone class, it is confusing what it does, by name alone. Of course the fully qualified name would be logging.config.DictConfigurator which does provide the requisite context, but if I think of/someone suggests a better name I'll certainly use it. [...] In thinking more about this, I guess I would have the same comment about the existing fileConfig() API also... it isn't file that is being configured, but the logs.  readConfigFromFile would have been more descriptive (and lots longer :( ).

cfgFromIni | cfgFromFile ? I prefer the former because YAML, shelves, JSON & Co can also be stored in a file , so at least I get a better understanding of the format in use. Otherwise I'd had to read the docs or figure out which one

Had fileConfig been called "bulkConfig" or "configAll" (these names attempt to contrast the function of this API versus the individual APIs that configure one thing at a time) taking a file parameter, then it could just simply/suddenly also allow a dict parameter, and no new API would have to be created.  Too late for this, however, and with the new API, it would be possible to deprecate the fileConfig API, and tell the user to use the ConfigParser (or JSON or YAML or whatever) to create the dict, and then pass that to DictConfigurator (or bulkConfig or whatever).

similar and consistent with what I mentioned before but IMO fileConfig should remain for backwards compatibility

Objections ?

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Olemis.

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