Enabled per-module logging level settings

[builtinnya]

These changes make debugging modules easier.

[builtinnya]

I've also added a bug fix in disposing output of Skype. This bug creates a file named "1" in sevabot/

[miohtama]

Nice! I think we can make this little bit simpler.

Python has internal config file format to configure loggers:

http://docs.python.org/2/library/logging.config.html

We just create logging.conf which is read on the start up and "outsource" all logging configuration for it. It has more powerful syntax and people are more familiar with it, because the format is used in other applications too.

In fact we can rip off some existing logging configuration options from settings.py and just put into this file.

This reduces the amount of code we need to maintain ourselves.

Also, there is another trick:

  logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) # Takes logger name automatically from the module name

... useful for modules get renamed and shuffled around.

[builtinnya]

Outsourced all logging configurations to logging.conf.

These changes show just a simple way to do it.

Some design decisions and considerations:

• Official logging HOWTO recommends using dictConfig() for new applications and deployments because this method insulates configuration information from its representation, but in our case there seems to be little benefit against additional complexity.
• Users are required to copy logging.conf.example to logging.conf just like settings.py. This is a little bit cumbersome, but including logging.conf directly in the repo is not acceptable. Is it better to hard-code default logging configuration or to include the default alternative configuration file for the case logging.conf is not given?

[miohtama]

I think we can just ship with one logging.conf and set it to gitingore so users don't push this around.

settings.conf.example is with .example extension only because it contains a default password. Logging configuration does not have similar security risk, so we can happily have default logging.conf in place.

[miohtama]

Mmm... I just give it a thought regarding settings.py.example.

We could ship with settings.py. On startup, Sevabot reads the file. If there is a default password, it is changed to random string which is then printed to stderr and settings are reloaded. This way we can avoid unnecessary manual password set process and make the bot initial start up process streamlined. Some work though, and not very high priority.

[builtinnya]

I think .gitignore ignores only untracked files and making it work with tracked files isn't easy as https://gist.github.com/canton7/1423106 suggests.

[builtinnya]

Anyway we have to gitignore logging.conf :)