Bug#623857: ITP: python-tracing -- Python debug tracing helper

[Robert Collins <robertc@robertcollins.net>]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> wrote:
>  Provides the Python library 'tracing' to help with logging debug messages.
>  This module provides a couple of functions for logging debug messages.
>  It is sometimes practical to add a lot of debugging log messages to a
>  program, but having them enabled all the time results in very large
>  log files. Also, logging that much takes quite a bit of time.
>  .
>  This module provides a way to turn such debugging or tracing messages
>  on and off, based on the filename they occur in.

This probably wants to explain whats different or interesting vs the
stdlib logging module, which has that sort of functionality too.

-Rob