Replace print with logging

[onkoe]

Currently, we use print to debug our programs. We shouldn't do that, as it can affect how our program runs in competition. It may also make it harder for Autonomous to see useful information.

Implementations

However, Python doesn't really have an incredible de-facto logging library. logging is pretty close, but it lacks simple features like colored output.

Here's a list of common libs with some info about them.

Logging

Pros:

• Comes with Python
• Used extensively amongst the Python3 ecosystem
• Most libraries write to it

Cons:

• No color support!
• Sloooooow
• Doesn't show common information in multithreaded operations (like which thread it's running on)

loguru: logging, with better defaults

Pros:

• Looks nice by default.
• Shows useful debugging information in messages.
• More akin to other languages' logging libs. Rust's tracing crate is a lot like loguru.
• Works with other libraries that use built-in logging lib.
• Happy with async, threads, etc.

Cons:

• Made in Python - it's slow.

picologging

It's a drop-in replacement for logging. The only difference is that it's significantly faster! See the logging section for more info.

[onkoe]

actually progressed on this in #7 🥹