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@@ -24,13 +24,17 @@ setup(name='tracing', url='http://liw.fi/tracing/', description='debug log/trace messages', long_description='''\ -This package 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 library provides a function for logging debug messages. +It is sometimes practical during software development 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 module provides a way to turn such debugging (or tracing) messages +on and off, based on the filename they occur in. It is much faster than +using `logging.Filter` to accomplish the same thing, which matters +when code is run in production mode. The actual logging still happens +using the `logging` library. ''', classifiers=[ 'Development Status :: 4 - Beta', |