I for one am glad to hear this aired in a public forum, even though it took several pointless replies to get to the "hey, check out this bad default setting"...

I for one am glad to hear this aired in a public forum, even though it took several pointless replies to get to the "hey, check out this bad default setting"... I'm learning Python as a distant third priority, I had only heard of pdb once, and I would have probably tripped over this logger that logs by default to nowhere at least once before I resorted to giving up and reading the documentation in anger. Why is it this way, do you think? (Is it a reasoned stance? I would have expected the logger to send messages to stdout by default, so at the risk of getting a "Read the docs!" am I going to be equally surprised at the behavior of basicConfig?)