Avoid `logger=logging.getLogger(__name__)`

[Thomas Güttler]

The current docs suggest this:

# import the logging library
import logging

# Get an instance of a logger
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

Source ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/logging/#using-logging

I don't like it. But I like the optimize-Imports feature of PyCharm, and the following line (often between the imports) disturbs this.

Is there no way to avoid this logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) ?

I asked this question some time ago at StackOverflow: ​http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34726515/avoid-logger-logging-getlogger-name

It would be very nice if this would be enough: import logging .... logging.warn(...). But with the semantics of logger = logging.getLogger(__name__).

[Simon Charette]

I don't like it. But I like the optimize-Imports feature of PyCharm, and the following line (often between the imports) disturbs this.

Is there a reason you can't instantiate the logger after all of your imports instead of in the middle of them?

Is there no way to avoid this logger = logging.getLogger(name) ?

I don't think so if you want to create a namespaced logger. If you don't mind logging all of your messages in the root namespace and relying on a formatter to describe their origin nothing prevents you from doing it (by using logging directly) but I don't think it's a practice we should encourage as the main strength of the logging framework lies in per-namespace routing of messages.

From my experience the more complex your application gets the more it will require namespaced logging messages. It's also a hard requirement if you're writing any kind of third-party applications.

[Tim Graham]

Please ask questions like this on TicketClosingReasons/UseSupportChannels (although this is a question about how Python logging works, not really Django-specific, I think).

[Thomas Güttler]

Just for the records: This issue is about what the django docs should look like.