On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Glenn Linderman <v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com> wrote: > On approximately 10/7/2009 10:45 PM, came the following characters from the > keyboard of Vinay Sajip: >> >> Glenn Linderman <v+python <at> g.nevcal.com> writes: >> >>> But DictConfigurator the name seems misleading... like you are >>> configuring how dicts work, rather than how logs work. Maybe with more >>> context this is not a problem, but if it is a standalone class, it is >>> confusing what it does, by name alone. >> >> Of course the fully qualified name would be >> logging.config.DictConfigurator >> which does provide the requisite context, but if I think of/someone >> suggests a >> better name I'll certainly use it. > [...] > > In thinking more about this, I guess I would have the same comment about the > existing fileConfig() API also... it isn't file that is being configured, > but the logs. readConfigFromFile would have been more descriptive (and lots > longer :( ). >
cfgFromIni | cfgFromFile ? I prefer the former because YAML, shelves, JSON & Co can also be stored in a file , so at least I get a better understanding of the format in use. Otherwise I'd had to read the docs or figure out which one > Had fileConfig been called "bulkConfig" or "configAll" (these names attempt > to contrast the function of this API versus the individual APIs that > configure one thing at a time) taking a file parameter, then it could just > simply/suddenly also allow a dict parameter, and no new API would have to be > created. Too late for this, however, and with the new API, it would be > possible to deprecate the fileConfig API, and tell the user to use the > ConfigParser (or JSON or YAML or whatever) to create the dict, and then pass > that to DictConfigurator (or bulkConfig or whatever). > similar and consistent with what I mentioned before but IMO fileConfig should remain for backwards compatibility Objections ? -- Regards, Olemis. Blog ES: http://simelo-es.blogspot.com/ Blog EN: http://simelo-en.blogspot.com/ Featured article: Looking for a technique to create flexible, graphical dashboards ... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TracGViz-full/~3/71kRhT34BgU/43789 _______________________________________________ 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
