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

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Sat Dec 11 20:32:55 CET 2010

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 22:21, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan gmail.com> writes:

This could actually make a reasonably good basic for a "task oriented" subsection of the logging documentation. Something like: Good suggestion, I'll see what I can do.

Just wanted to +1 on some task-oriented (or at least simple intro) docs going into the logging module.

The length of the docs is rather daunting I always have a hard time getting started (the first example is for file logging and the second one does log rotation when all I want is printing to stderr!). All I want is an opener saying, "here are the functions to call to send stuff to the log; the defaults for each go here and here (e.g., stderr, /dev/null), and if you want to change those settings, here is how to e.g., get info() to go to stderr. Read on for more if you need something fancier (e.g., writing to a file)". That and making it not an error when I call logging.error() w/o setting an explicit logger would go a long way to making the logging module much more accessible IMO.

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