[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 282 comments

[Neal Norwitz]

Vinay Sajip wrote:

> There is a potential minefield here - if we are allowing any logging record
> to be sent by wire to a remote logger, then the "user_info" needs to go
> too - and what if something in it can't be pickled? Given that it is really
> important that the logging system is silent except when explicitly asked to
> do something by a logging call, exceptions caught in the logging system are
> generally ignored by design. This means that pickling exceptions would not
> be raised, and I foresee difficulties for developers... The idea of allowing
> arbitrary objects into the LogRecord is very powerful and has much to
> commend it, but I think the pickling problem may need to be solved first.

You could have the logging methods return an int/bool, 
1 if succesfully logged, 0 on failure.  Let the caller
decide what to do.  You could even return a failure
object or None.  The failure object would contain
(or be) the exception/problem.

Neal