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

Vinay Sajip vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Dec 10 23:21:11 CET 2010

Bill Janssen <janssen parc.com> writes:

stdlib, you don't want that default. I think that logging events (context) have to come into this; you can't do it with just severity alone. I'd expect to have different settings, by default, for main and for http.client, for instance.

Although e.g. http.client may set a default severity, the developer integrating it into an application is free to override that severity for the purposes of their application. Typically, there are different severities set for different parts of an application at different times, depending on where the focus of diagnostic scrutiny is at those times.

Severity is not the only filtering mechanism, merely the simplest and most common one, that people can readily grasp.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip

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