[Python-ideas] Structured Error Output

[Nick Coghlan]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> (Although, having said that, I wish there was a stdinfo for
> informational messages that are neither the intended program output nor
> unintended program errors, e.g. status messages, progress indicators,
> etc.)

And, indeed, such a channel exists: it's called the logging system,
which separates event *generation* (calls to the logging message API)
from event *display* (configuration of logging handlers). In
particular, see the following table in the logging HOWTO guide:
http://docs.python.org/howto/logging.html#when-to-use-logging

Cheers,
Nick.

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