[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 282 comments

[Guido van Rossum]

> This violates the principle that logging should be "set and
> forget". Having the logger fail silently has, in past experience,
> caused fewer problems than having to handle errors from the logging
> system - yet another headache for the developer!

+1.

(You could have a meta-logger where errors from the logger go --
e.g. default to stderr.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)