Add a paragraph on motivation in README

globality-corp / flake8-logging-format

Flake8 extension to validate (lack of) logging format strings

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Add a paragraph on motivation in README #19

Closed afallou closed 5 years ago

afallou commented 5 years ago

Most of the text was taken from https://github.com/globality-corp/flake8-logging-format/issues/5

Julian-O commented 5 years ago

I understand this addresses the original motivation of the developers (who wanted to ban the logging on private data) but it is less focussed on the advantages to other users who might install this.

In #15, I mention the potential for log file translations (which are especially useful if log messages are emailed to ops people, and potentially saving of time from expensive __str__ calls.