December 2023: Holiday You’ll Log

Files from meeting

If your program is being naughty and not nice, you’d better see it when it’s sleep()ing. Generating records of what your program is up to can help you find what’s wrong, both in the live debugging phase and when you get unexpected behavior later on.

You can do a lot better than slapping a bunch of print statements around. Proper logging libraries and techniques can keep your programs from getting stockings full of coal.

Subtopics will include

Why proper logging is better
Handy f-string features
Python’s standard logging module
The vastly less annoying loguru library
The delightful multi-language logging library icecream (see, we are a multi-language group)
Log viewers (cutelog)
Log aggregation

Location: Innovation Hub

We meet in the Innovation Hub, a gorgeous new facility that’s part of the renovated Dayton Arcade complex.
Enter through the doors that face the Wright Stop Plaza bus hub.

Street parking is free in the evening. I usually park on Ludlow Street.

if for any reason coming downtown doesn’t work for you (for instance, you’ve been exposed to COVID, or you’ve converted yourself to purely digital format and now exist as a set of cloud-hosted algorithms), we’ll be online as well!

Join us at 7 PM EDT on the PyFri Discord channel, discord.gg/9SgTh3T, and click on the General voice chat link. You may need to install the Discord desktop app rather than just using the web interface.