pylogging

A simple python logger which writes logs to disk with some default configs.

Compatible with:

Python 2.7 and 3.5+

Current stable version:

0.3.0

Installation:

Install using pip

pip install git+https://github.com/ansrivas/pylogging.git --upgrade

Install by adding to requirements.txt of your project

• Add the following lines to your requirements.txt file. git+https://github.com/ansrivas/pylogging.git
• Install all packages in your requirements.txt file by running the command: $ pip install -r requirements.txt

Install by adding to setup.py of your project

• Add the following to the install_requires parameter of your setup function: install_requires=['pylogging==0.2.6'],
• Add the following to the dependency_links parameter of your setup function: dependency_links=['https://github.com/ansrivas/pylogging/tarball/master#egg=pylogging-0.2.6'],
• Install your project along with pylogging by running the command: python setup.py install

Usage:

• setup_logger sets up the global logger with the provided settings. After calling it once, simply import logging and create a logger for that module logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) and use it at shown below.

from pylogging import HandlerType, setup_logger
import logging

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    setup_logger(log_directory='./logs', file_handler_type=HandlerType.ROTATING_FILE_HANDLER, allow_console_logging=True)

    logger.error("Error logs")
    logger.debug("Debug logs")
    logger.info("Info logs")

Development installation

pip install -e .[dev]

Important arguments to setup_logger function:

log_directory (str)            :directory to write log files to. Applicable only when `allow_file_logging` = True
file_handler_type              :object of logging handler from HandlerType class. Applicable only when `allow_file_logging` = True
allow_console_logging (bool)   :Turn off/on the console logging.
allow_file_logging (bool)      :Turn off/on if logs need to go in files as well.
backup_count (int)             :Number of files to backup before rotating the logs.
max_file_size_bytes (int)      :Size of file in bytes before rotating the file. Applicable only to ROTATING_FILE_HANDLER.
when_to_rotate (str)           :Duration after which a file can be rotated. Applicable only to TIME_ROTATING_FILE_HANDLER
                                Accepts following values:
                                'S'   Seconds
                                'M'   Minutes
                                'H'   Hours
                                'D'   Days
                                'W0'-'W6'     Weekday (0=Monday)
                                'midnight'    Roll over at midnight
change_log_level (dict)        :A dictionary of handlers with corresponding log-level ( for eg. {'requests':'warning'} )
console_log_level (logging)    :Change the LogLevel of console log handler, default is logging.INFO (e.g. logging.DEBUG, logging.INFO)
gelf_handler                   :An external handler for graylog data publishing.
log_tags                       :Adding contextual information to a given log handler for e.g. {'app_name': 'My Perfect App'}