New submission from Nan Hua <nanhua2...@gmail.com>:
As I see, Python's logging module's implementation has a nice property that,
when no additional args are passed in, the msg (first argument) will be
directly printed.
For example, logging.error('abc %s') can be handled peacefully with printing
"ERROR:root:abc %s" in the log.
However, the logging's documentation only said the followings:
"The msg is the message format string, and the args are the arguments which are
merged into msg using the string formatting operator."
>From what I see, this implementation (seems the case for both Python2 and
>Python3) has many benefits: saving CPU resources, safe handling pre-formated
>string, etc. More importantly, it also de-facto allows using the convenient
>f-string in logging statement, e.g.
logging.error(f'Started at {start_time}, finished at {finish_time}'
f' by user {user}')
can run correctly and smoothly even with user containing %s inside.
In summary, I hope this de-facto actual behavior can be officially endorsed,
with wordings like,
"When *args is empty, i.e. no additional positional arguments passed in, the
msg be of any string (no need to be a format string) and will be directly used
as is without interpolation."
What do you think? Thank you a lot!
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 364920
nosy: nhua
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Document the behavior that no interplotation is applied when no *args
are passed in for logging statements
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.9
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