My comp.lang.python thread is here:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/a0c35c3c9ad210a4

It was met by deafening silence though.

I don't see why a simple format would need to be customer-specific.
log4py's isn't/wasn't and that worked just fine. It did support logging
to more than files but its configuration file scaled down much more
gracefully for simple usage, mostly because it didn't expose its
internal design like the logging one does. It had only loggers instead
of loggers/handlers/formatters.

But log4py is discontinued now as a project and I can't face maintaining
my own copy of it any more.

I'm getting the feeling you're just trying to fob me off here. You
dismiss the threads I found as being "mostly about other things" or "not
mentioning specifics". That may be so, but the fact is, in those threads
you have five other people expressing in one way or another that the
configuration file is too complex - and I'm sure I could find more if
you really want. If you prefer to ignore them and me there's not much
point in discussing further.

I'm not demanding that you do this work. I'm simply trying to raise the
issue and asking you to consider accepting such a patch if I or somebody
else produce it.