On Oct 25, 2010, at 02:28 PM, Vinay Sajip wrote:
>I've just checked in a change to logging into the py3k branch (r85835),
>including doc changes and tests, for providing slightly more flexibility in
>alternative format styles for logging.
>
>Basically, Formatter.__init__ gets an extra optional keyword arg style=<one of
>'%' (default), '{' or '$'>. This is then used to merge the format string with
>the LogRecord: either fmt % record.__dict__, or fmt.format(**record.dict), or
>string.Template(fmt).substitute(**record.dict). Backward compatibility is
>maintained (unless I've missed something).This sounds like a reasonable solution that provides the flexibility we want, while maintaining backward compatibility. Thanks! I haven't played with it yet, but do you think it makes sense to add a 'style' keyword argument to basicConfig()? That would make it pretty easy to get the formatting style you want without having to explicitly instantiate a Formatter, at least for simple logging clients. Cheers, -Barry
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