sanelogging

Sane Defaults for Python Logging

The python stdlib logging module is useful, flexible, and configurable.

However, the maintainers have (quite reasonably) determined that python is an application runtime and not an application. The default configuration for the logging is thus not very useful, and this commonly results in boilerplate in your own programs.

This is an opinionated module for the 90% case where you just want sane defaults without that boilerplate. (In effect, moving it into PyPI.)

It Also Does Some Other Stuff

• There are some convenience methods added, such as panic and die (c.f. golang and perl).

• notice is aliased to info, for those who forget that python doesn’t have a notice level (i.e. me).

• If you set the environment variable LOG_TO_SYSLOG to something, it will print out your log messages on paper and mail them to you.

• If stdout is a tty, log messages will be color-coded using the colorlog module.

Usage

from sanelogging import log

log.info("starting up!")

log.error("something went wrong.")

log.die("bailing out") # exits

print "no soup for you." # never reached

Author

Jeffrey Paul <sneak@sneak.berlin>

https://sneak.berlin

@sneakdotberlin

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License

This code is released into the public domain.