[Python-Dev] Using logging in the stdlib and its unit tests (original) (raw)

Vinay Sajip vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Dec 8 20:11:48 CET 2010

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan gmail.com> writes:

As a starting point, I'd say warnings and above, no formatting (i.e. just the message). To minimise bikeshedding, I'd like to be guided by the idea that this is a more configurable alternative to printing directly to stderr, but in the absence of application level configuration, you wouldn't be able to tell which approach the library was using just by looking at the program output.

Makes sense. I know it's only a small change at the implementation level but the impact may be larger (due to it being a backwards-incompatible behaviour change), and the little details need to be agreed, so does it make sense to create a PEP about this? What do people think - is this bureaucratic overkill?

Regards,

Vinay Sajip

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