I think it’s a “Bad Idea” to use an environment variable — who knows what
Python script may be running on a given system?

But a standard command line argument to the interpreter could be useful.

-CHB

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 8:51 AM Mike Miller <python-id...@mgmiller.net>
wrote:

>
> On 2020-02-19 17:12, Bar Harel wrote:
> > Another idea I've had that may be of use:
> >
> > PYTHONLOGGING environment variable.
> >
> > Setting PYTHONLOGGING to any log level or level name will initialize
> > logging.basicConfig() with that appropriate level.
> >
> > Another option would be that -x dev or a different -x logging will
> initialize
> > basic config.
>
> As a heavy user of logging, I like this one a lot.  In a new project, the
> lack
> of such a feature allows one to stick with print() perhaps longer than is
> prudent.
>
> -Mike
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