On Jan 3, 2023, at 10:38 AM, c.bu...@posteo.jp wrote:
this posting isn't about asking for a technical solution. My
intention is to understand the design decision Python's core developers made in
context of that topic.
The logging module write everything to stderr no matter which logging
level is used.
Sure. They're logs.
The argparse module does it more differentiated. If arguments are
mandatory but none are given then argparse produce a short version of
the usage info; on stderr. If the user request the usage info via "-h"
it goes to stdout. This is the behavior I would expect.
Error messages to stderr. _Requested output_ to stdout. Good with me.
Why does logging behave different? DEBUG and INFO imho should go to
stdout not stderr.
I entirely disagree.
Consider a shell pipeline:
cmd1 | cmd2 | cmd3
where `cmd2` and `cmd3` parse data coming down the pipes. Letting
logging info into those data streams would produce garbage. This
separation between core programme output and error/logging output is the
basic reason that the two streams exist, and the reason logging goes to
stderr by default.
You're conflating "normal output" with INFO, which is not a substitute
for eg `print()`.
Of course I could modify the handlers etc. to workaround this. But I
assume that there was something in mind of the Python developers when
they decided that.
Basicly, logging data is not the normal output. So it does not get sent
to stdout. The log level doesn't change that characteristic.
My goal is not to divide between the use of print() or logging.info()
in my own code. This would mess up a lot.
I think you should, or you should fiddle the handlers as you previous
resist doing if it is your goal.
But keep in mind that if you do that globally (eg in the root logger) it
will affect _all_ logging calls, not merely your own, and other
libraries will assume they can log at whatever level and not pollute
stdout with their logs.
Basicly, logging isn't "output".
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
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