Chris Curvey wrote: > The following code exists in logging/config.py > > handlers[hand] = h > except: #if an error occurs when instantiating a handler, too bad > pass #this could happen e.g. because of lack of privileges > > The problem here is that if something did go wrong instantiating the > handler, you have no idea what the problem was (permissions, syntax > error, wrong parameters), and later on you get a message like: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "c:\python24\lib\logging\config.py", line 151, in fileConfig > log.addHandler(handlers[hand]) > KeyError: 'default' > > I propose that we change the code so that we have a fighting chance of > figuring out what's going on, like this: > > handlers[hand] = h > except Exception, e: #if an error occurs when instantiating a > handler, too bad > print e #this could happen e.g. because of > lack of privileges > > But I'm not sure if a "print" statement is the best way to go about it.
I think this is fixed in subversion, see http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/logging/config.py?rev=42074&r1=38949&r2=42074 Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
