[Python-ideas] Logging2 with default NullHandler

Thu Mar 15 22:32:58 CET 2012

On 14Mar2012 21:28, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
| Badly need `logging2` module that has NullHandler assigned by default
| for all loggers.
| http://packages.python.org/Logbook/api/handlers.html#logbook.NullHandler
|| Why? Because logging fails to play well with libraries:
|| import logging
| log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
| log.warn("WARN")
|| No handlers could be found for logger "spyderlib.utils.bsdsocket"
|| What do I want from library logging as a Python application developer?
| Nothing until I explicitly setup default behaviour.

Fair point.
Conversely, almost every app I write commences thus:
 from cs.logutils import setup_logging
 def main(argv):
 setup_logging()
 ... main code ...
That sends to stderr with frills. Finer grained setup can come later.
I _think_ I prefer logging's current behaviour:
 - I do want a big fat warning if I forget to configure logging at all
 - I don't want lobraries doing sufficient work at import time to
 warrant logging anything
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