At 05:15 PM 1/14/2008 +0000, Chris Withers wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>At 02:03 PM 12/21/2007 +0000, Chris Withers wrote:
>>>I think I'm missing something: what in the logging package makes
>>>you log by which module issued the message?
>>That's the conventional usage: modules that use logging usually use
>>a static logger based on module name. Take a look at the
>>distutils, for example.
>
>Yeah, but I don't see anything in the logging package that enforces
>this convention...
>
>>It's not common for modules that do logging, to take logger objects
>>as part of their API, and if they did, it would almost certainly suck.
>
>Why would they need to? The logging module has its own registry of loggers.
>
>getLogger('x.y.z') only creates a logger if it doesn't already exist...
You're only shifting the issue from taking loggers as arguments, to
logger *names* as arguments. This doesn't change the problem in the
least -- it just adds the overhead of doing a lookup.
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