Quoth Bruce Kroeze:

One thing I just don’t understand is why more people, especially framework designers, omit or skip logging. Django appears to, which is incredibly annoying to me. It is a complex framework, which makes all kinds of assumptions and relies on convention to infer a lot of functionality. That’s great, but being able to “turn up” the log-level and see some discussion about what decisions it is making, based on what criteria it is using would be incredibly valuable to me. Not only to me, I wager, but to everyone who is learning the framework, or who is teasing out a difficult bug. Yet going in and adding framework-level logging is almost impossible, even on an open-source project, since your changes will not be accepted and will quickly become a merge nightmare.

I only skimmed through the Django tutorial and never really gave it the time it deserves, so I can’t say much about Django’s logging mechanisms (or lack thereof). But Bruce cites his bug report and doesn’t sound happy.

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