Malcolm Greene wrote: > I've read that best practice for logging is to place the following line > at the top of all modules: > > logger = getLogger(__name__) > > I'm curious why the following technique wouldn't be a better choice: > > logger = getLogger() > > Are there scenarios that favor one style over another?
With __name__ you will have one logger per source file (module), with corresponding filtering possibilities, and organized hierarchically as are packages (logging use . to built its loggers hierarchy). Without __name__, you have one global default logger. > > Thank you, > Malcolm -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
