> > I would feel much less strongly about this if several of the > > additional things could be moved to separate files without making it a > > package. > > > [stuff snipped] > > > This is an example of something that I'd like to see relegated to a > > separate file. It really looks like fileConfig(), listen() and > > stopListening() are a separate feature bundle that looks like it is > > a specific example application rather than a core feature of the > > logging module. It certainly doesn't appear in PEP 282. Maybe the > > socket handler classes belong in the same category. > > > > Of course, the same can be said about all Handler subclasses except > > StreamHandler. Only StreamHandler is referenced by basicConfig(). > > Perhaps these should all (except StreamHandler) be moved to separate > > files? This sounds like a reason to make it a package. The main > > logging code could be in the __init__.py file -- there's no rule that > > says __init__.py should be empty or short! > > How about this suggestion? We could leave the core code in the > existing module, "logging". This would include a minimal set of > handlers, and all the Filters, and I think StreamHandler and > FileHandler should be in here. All other handlers would live in > "logging.handlers". As for configuration - basicConfig() could live > in "logging" and any other configuration code in "logging.config". Sounds good to me. I hope that whoever felt strongly about this (Martin von Loewis?) agrees. > If the above seems a good idea, please let me know and I'll refactor > accordingly - then the next release will (hopefully) be in the next > 2-3 weeks. > > > PS. In your comments you seem fond of the word "needful". I've rarely > > heard that word -- perhaps it is archaic or common only in India? > > I only found 2 uses of "needful" - in BufferingHandler and > ConfigStreamHandler. It's the whole phrase "do the needful", which I > think is peculiar to England but has its share of users on the > subcontinent :-) Oh well. Shows how Americanized I am, despite my thoroughly European upbringing, after 7 years here. :-) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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