[Python-Dev] logging doc broken

[Vinay Sajip]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Yep, that's what I had assumed you were going to do (this did come up
> in the big thread about the logging docs, but you may have missed it).

I hadn't missed it - I'm just spelling out in more detail what I'm going to do.
 

> That said, you can't get a one-to-one correspondence in this case
> anyway, since some of the parameters relate to multiple attributes
> (e.g. "lvl" becomes both "levelNo" and "levelName").
> 
> It is rare that anyone will be constructing a LogRecord manually
> though, so I don't think the parameter names matter all that much in
> practice. It is far more common that people will be creating them
> implicitly through the Logger event notification methods or by
> deserialising them.

I agree, it's a pretty unlikely scenario. Of course, I do make use of the
parameter names in the dictConfig approach, so I can't really complain. I should
hopefully remember this when I'm writing out a method or function signature for
a public API :-)

Regards,

Vinay