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Reduce default verbosity of the package #523
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Agree with you, but I probably would implement this as a global switch similar to
scanpy.set_figure_paramsrather than at the function level.Opinions @ilan-gold @flying-sheep ?
Without knowing more, I'm a big fan of settings objects. They have the risk of making everything a setting so you need to be judicious, but this is a great use-case
Implemented in #524 — logging verbosity can now be controlled globally via
spatialdata_plot.set_verbosity(). By default, INFO messages are suppressed.You can test it with:
import spatialdata_plot from spatialdata.datasets import blobs blob = blobs() # this used to trigger printing of an info message # now it just outputs the plot blob.pl.render_shapes("blobs_circles", method='datashader').pl.show() # to get the old, more verbose behavior spatialdata_plot.set_verbosity(True) blob.pl.render_shapes("blobs_circles", method='datashader').pl.show()Let me know if this is in line with what you envisioned or if I should change anything.
Reacted by LucaMarconato and Tim Treis- linked a pull request that will close this issueEnhancement/reduce verbosity #524
on Mar 2, 2026
In my experience,
spatialdata-plotis quite verbose. While detailed logging is very helpful for warnings and debugging, I often encounter a wall of text even when everything is working correctly. This is due to the extensive use oflogger.info()throughout the codebase.Although users can manually adjust the logging level, I think the default behavior could be less verbose for normal, successful execution. I would suggest to either remove the
logger.info()calls entirely, or introduce averboseargument for the relevant methods (defaulting toFalse).I’d be happy to have a go at this, but wanted to gather some opinions first. Is this a change that would be welcome?