[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 282 comments

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "TM" == Trent Mick <trentm@ActiveState.com> writes:

    TM> Jeremy, The methods use 'msg, *args' instead of just 'msg' to
    TM> avoid string interpolation if the message will not be logged.
    TM> I think that that is still important to keep, albeit it making
    TM> the 'exc' keyword argument less explicit.

I really like my logging interface, which also uses *args.  This just
seems really convenient, and like you said, allows you to avoid some
extra work if the logging is disabled:

    syslog('vette', 'banned subscription: %s (matched: %s)',
                     email, pattern)

(There's a mismatch in my API and the PEP 282 API: `syslog' is a
global Logger instance that takes the file to log to -- relative to a
known directory -- as its first argument.  I don't think this is
insurmountable.)

-Barry