On 1/9/06, Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to create a patch for the logging package, but before I do, I > need to know whether someone else is working on the package and whether > my patch is likely to be accepted. Is there another group I should talk to?
Vinay (copied) maintains it separately. He's the best person to talk to AFAIK. He maintains compatability with older pythons, possibly 1.5, I don't recall. Check PEP 291. > Specifically, I want to change the following: There are several bugs (any maybe patches) on SF related to logging. AFAIK, they are all assigned to Vinay. It would be great if you could fix those as well. n -- > - The logging.config.fileConfig function has bare excepts that hide > configuration errors. I'd like to remove the bare excepts and break up > fileConfig for clarity. > > - I'd like to make it possible to configure the format of exception > tracebacks. Some logs want compressed tracebacks like Medusa; others > want extra information like Zope. > > - There is no support for external log rotation. There is plenty of > support for Python rotating logs directly, but permission settings often > make that impossible. Long-running Python processes need to accept a > signal which notifies them when an external tool rotates the logs. > > - The logging documentation is lacking somewhat. For example, it fails > to mention that the logging handlers are in the 'handlers' module, which > I only learned by searching the source code. > > Shane _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
