[Web-SIG] serving (potentially large) files through wsgi?

[Chris Withers]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> 
> There are other logging systems out there besides the Python logging 
> module -- and some of them are better for their specific 
> purposes. 

Can you give some examples?

> And the Python logging module doesn't give you any 
> WSGI-level control over output.

What do you mean by that?

> At least if you use wsgi.errors, you 
> can have middleware that e.g. logs different parts of your 
> application tree to different log outputs.

if you needed this level of control, why not just do:

getLogger('/myurl/whatever').info('...etc...')

...and have the WSGI server configure loggers as appropriate?

> Which just goes to illustrate the problem of using a global logging 
> package that has only static context (which is one of my pet peeves 
> re: the logging module).

I've never thought of it as having static context and I've never bumped 
into this as a problem :-S

>  In my experience, you more want to be able 
> to filter and route logs by component *instance* (e.g. which page of 
> your web app is being rendered) than by code module (e.g. templating 
> library vs. db library).

...and what's stopping you doing this?

> Dividing up the logs by which module issued 
> the message is a bug, not a feature.

I think I'm missing something: what in the logging package makes you log 
by which module issued the message?

cheers,

Chris

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