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logging package -- rename warn to warning?

[Python-Dev] Re: logging package -- rename warn to warning?David Goodger goodger@python.org
Sun, 19 Jan 2003 14:37:40 -0500
[Vinay Sajip ]
>> OK, that's fine - warning/WARNING it is. For consistency, though, we should
>> also lose fatal/FATAL which are currently synonyms for critical/CRITICAL.

[Guido van Rossum]
> Yes, except I find fatal/FATAL so much easier to write.  Do we really
> need the "political correctness" of critical/CRITICAL?

I would characterize "fatal" as misleading, and "critical" as accurate.
"Fatal" implies "death", as in process termination, or sys.exit(), or at
least an exception being raised.  It's an important distinction, well worth
the extra 3 letters.

-- David Goodger    http://starship.python.net/~goodger

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