easylogconfig

This python library provides simple wrapper for standart logging module.

If you want something more than "logging.basicConfig", but don't want to read a lot of documentation and write a lot of code.

WARNING Since v0.2 python 2 is not supported anymore.

Usage

You can find examples in ./examples directory

import logging
import easylogconfig

log = logging.getLogger(__name__)

# print messages to the stdout, add debug level
easylogconfig.auto(debug=True)
# or print messages to the syslog
easylogconfig.auto(syslog_tag="example_tag")
# or log messages to remote syslog server
easylogconfig.auto(syslog_tag="example_tag", syslog_address=("127.0.0.1", 514))
# or print messages to the file without datetime but with thread names
easylogconfig.auto(file_name="/var/log/example.log", file_backup_count=30,
                   datetime=False, thread=True)

log.info("info message")
log.debug("debug message")

# output format:
# 2019-03-22/10:17:28 INFO    info message

Configuration

Library provides one simple function auto with arguments:

• formatter arguments:
  • debug=False: add debug messages to output?
  • thread=False: add thread names to messages?
  • datetime=True: add datetime to messages?
  • level=False: add level names to messages?
• SysLogHandler arguments:
  • syslog_tag=None: if set to str, log messages to syslog with this tag
  • syslog_address="/dev/log": syslog server address. By default, it sends syslog messages via /dev/log file. It can be set to string (ip address or hostname, in this case default 514 port is used), or to Tuple[str, int] (like logging.handlers.SysLogHandler)
• TimedRotatingFileHandler arguments:
  • file_name=None: if set to str, log messages to this tile
  • file_when="midnight": file rotating time
  • file_backup_count=7: keep last files

Log handlers configuration rules:

• StreamHandler will be used if syslog_tag or file_name are omitted or empty strings
• SysLogHandler will be used if syslog_tag is set to none-empty string
• TimedRotatingFileHandler will be used if file_name is set to none-empty string
• ValueError will be raised if both syslog_tag and file_name are set to none-empty string

Installation

python3 -m pip install -U easylogconfig
# or
python3 -m pip install -U git+https://github.com/tierpod/easylogconfig#egg=easylogconfig

Development

make venv
source ./venv/bin/activate
(venv) make init-dev init