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Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 16:45:40 -0400
From: Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>
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On 6/2/2013 2:18 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
> On Sunday, June 2, 2013 12:49:02 PM UTC-5, Dan Sommers wrote:
>> On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 03:20:52 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:04 AM, Rick Johnson
>> [...]
>> Or use the logging module.  It's easy to get going quickly
>> (just call logging.basicConfig at startup time), and with
>> a little care and feeding, you can control the output in
>> more ways than can fit into the margin. Oh, yeah, I'm sure
>> it introduces some overhead.  So does everything else.
> I hate log files, at least during development or testing. I prefer to debug on the command line or using my IDE. Log files are for release time, not development.
>
Rick, you should give the logging module a try.  The default 
configuration from basicConfig is that the messages all go to stderr, so 
no log files to deal with.  And it's configurable in the ways you want, 
plus a lot more.

--Ned.