Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

Last modified 16 years ago

#39 closed task (fixed)

logging: format strings are goofy

Reported by: Brian Warner Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone: 0.2.3
Component: logging Version: 0.2.2
Keywords: Cc:

Description

I should have just followed Twisted's lead w.r.t. flogging format strings. The goal is to allow at least these two forms:

  • log.msg("blah")
  • log.msg("blah %s", posarg)

(twisted doesn't offer the second, but I think it's handy).

The other goal is to allow kwarg formatting. Twisted does log.msg(format="blah %(n)d", n=12), but I went with log.msg("blah %(n)d", n=12). The problem with my approach is that it means you can't tell if the user really wanted string formatting or not, so log.msg("100% done!") causes a ValueError? or something as the percent-space format key is bogus.

Switch to the Twisted approach. Then, only apply formatting if there are positional args, or if we have format= instead of message=. Note that this means not all events will have message=, so other code must be prepared to handle this.

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed 16 years ago by Brian Warner

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

comment:2 Changed 16 years ago by Brian Warner

Milestone: undecided0.2.3
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