On 9/04/19 17:43, Skip Montanaro wrote: >>> Is logging an unpopular package? >> I've been writing Python applications for 20 years. On several >> occasions, I've sat down determined to use it. After a frustrating >> half a day or so trying to get it to do what I want (and failing), >> I've always given up and gone back to writing my own throw-away >> logging functions (typically containing a dozen or so lines of code). > I'm with Grant. I only broke down recently because that's what's used > at work and I need to eat. I log *a lot* and always felt it solved > problems I never had. For example, I never needed to log to syslog, > include the current thread id in my log messages, or to have multiple > simultaneous active handlers. (Though I can understand that some > people will want all this stuff.)
I use the simultaneous active handlers regularly. I write a lot of things that are called by cron. My standard set up is to have two handlers. One with loglevel INFO that writes to a file and one with loglevel WARNING that writes to stderr. -- Antoon Pardon. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
