On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:35:08 +0000 (UTC) Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > I'm planning a change to logging.basicConfig to add an optional "handlers" > keyword argument which defaults to None. > > If specified, this should be an iterable of already created handlers, which > will > be added to the root logger (if it doesn't already have any handlers). Any > handler in the iterable which does not have a formatter assigned will be > assigned the formatter created by basicConfig. > > If "handlers" is specified, the "stream", "filename" and "filemode" arguments > will be ignored. > > If any of you can see any problems with this change, or can suggest any > improvement to the approach, please respond.
I'm not a logging expert, but the fact that your description above mentions at least two instances of special-casing make it sound like the API has an usability (or learnability) problem. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
