On Oct 29, 11:24 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One deficiency of this approach, however, is that the string formatting > is performed even when nologgingis required, thereby wasting a certain > amount of effort on unnecessary formatting. >
Though you can mitigate this using the pattern: if logger.isEnabledFor(logging.DEBUG): logger.debug("Message with variable data which may be expensive: %s", expensive_call()) Which will only make the expensive_call() and formatting when the logging call will actually do something. Regards, Vinay Sajip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list