New submission from Will Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
In (at least) Python 2.5.2, logging.logRecord provides a very useful
facility to interpolate formatted strings. This feature expands an *args
sequence; if that sequence has only one element and that element is a
dictionary, LogRecord uses the dictionary to interpolate keyword
formatted strings. This is incredibly useful, but the LogRecord
__init__() method includes a rather arbitrary type-specific check that
prevents users from passing dict-like objects to the log methods:
logging.__init__.py:204..238
class LogRecord:
[...]
def __init__(self, name, level, pathname, lineno,
msg, args, exc_info, func=None):
[...]
if args and (len(args) == 1) and args[0] and (type(args[0]) ==
types.DictType):
args = args[0]
This restriction prevents the user from passing eg a subclass of
UserDict.DictMixin. Now, __init__() clearly does need to do _some_
checking of args, but it would be nice if that checking accepted
dict-like objects. I haven't come up with a good way to do this myself
yet, but I figured I'd submit the request now.
Thanks!
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 64415
nosy: wcmaier
severity: normal
status: open
title: logging.LogRecord should know how to handle dict-like args
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.5
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<http://bugs.python.org/issue2473>
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