On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:38 PM, John Gordon <gor...@panix.com> wrote: > In <6bce12c3-f2d9-450c-89ee-afa4f21d5...@h30g2000vbr.googlegroups.com> Vinay > Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> writes: > >> The logging package allows you to add tracebacks to your logs by using >> the exception() method, which logs an ERROR with a traceback and is >> specifically intended for use from within exception handlers. All that >> stuff with temporary files seems completely unnecessary, even with Python >> 2.3. > > I didn't know about the exception() method. Thanks! > >> In general, avoid adding handlers more than once - which you are >> almost guaranteed to not avoid if you do this kind of processing in a >> constructor. If you write your applications without using the >> exceptionLogger class (not really needed, since logging exceptions >> with tracebacks is part and parcel of the logging package's >> functionality since its introduction with Python 2.3), what >> functionality do you lose? > > I'm trying to encapsulate all the setup work that must be done before any > actual logging occurs: setting the debugging level, choosing the output > filename, declaring a format string, adding the handler, etc. > > If I didn't do all that in a class, where would I do it?
Put it in a module. :] > -- > John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs > gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears > -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list