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

Uche Ogbuji uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com
Thu, 23 Jan 2003 07:05:05 -0700


> I thought one reason for the current names is that they match the
> log4j tool and all the other language's versions of that tool.  I'd
> like to see the package keep the standard names to make it easier for
> someone to pick up this package.  Those names are debug, info, warn,
> error, fatal.

Personally, I'd moot for better English, rather than conformance to another 
package.

+1 for debug, info, warning, error, [critical/severe]

All of which are appropriate enough adjectives (though "debugging" would 
probably be less awkward).


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