[Python-Dev] Re: logging package -- rename warn to warning?

[Guido van Rossum]

> >>OK, that's fine - warning/WARNING it is. For consistency, though, we should
> >>also lose fatal/FATAL which are currently synonyms for critical/CRITICAL.
> > 
> > Yes, except I find fatal/FATAL so much easier to write.  Do we really
> > need the "political correctness" of critical/CRITICAL?
> 
> Are you seriously arguing for saving a few keystrokes?  After adding 
> three to warn? =)

Not at all.  I think I've seen many loggers with a series of levels
going something like warning, error, fatal.  I've never seen 'critical'
before in this context.  Thus I find that it takes more mental work to
remember or interpret 'critical' than 'fatal'.

> It's not political correctness, it's technical correctness.  I say do it 
> right for all the calls or leave it as is (or revert to Java compatibility).

I know that 'critical' is technically more correct, but somehow I
don't care.

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