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A potential security vulnerability in logging.fileConfig() 27 Jul 2012 | 02:46 am
Although now superseded by the dictConfig() API proposed in PEP 391, the much older fileConfig() API has been widely used to configure logging. It is also possible to do on-the-fly reconfiguration of ...
Introspecting the logger hierarchy 30 Apr 2012 | 12:08 am
Brandon Rhodes’ post about his logging_tree project got me thinking about providing this sort of functionality in the logging package. Though introspection of the logger hierarchy has been mentioned a...
Structured logging, standardised 8 Mar 2012 | 10:46 am
Moves are afoot in the Linux world to standardise structured logging – logging in such a way that log event data can be parsed in a standard fashion to extract useful information for later analysis. O...
Improved flexibility for log file rotation 14 Dec 2011 | 12:27 am
The RotatingFileHandler and TimedRotatingFileHandler classes provide basic log file rotation functionality, but there are times when more functionality is required than is provided in these classes. O...
Configurability tweaks for SysLogHandler and Formatter 10 Jun 2011 | 09:38 am
There have been some recent changes to SysLogHandler and Formatter which will appear in Python releases. SysLogHandler currently appends a NUL byte to messages it sends to syslog daemons. This is bec...
Added functionality for basicConfig() in Python 3.3 11 Apr 2011 | 11:08 pm
The logging.basicConfig() function allows users to easily configure either a console handler or file handler for the root logger, and thereby have them usable by all loggers in their application. Whil...
Logging documentation for Python 2.7 reorganised 11 Apr 2011 | 10:35 pm
The logging documentation for Python 2.7 has been reorganised into the same structure as that for Python 3.x. The library reference is supposed to be just that – a reference – so the tutorials have be...
Desktop log viewer released 12 Feb 2011 | 03:22 am
A Qt-based desktop application for viewing logs received across the network has been released. It incorporates some of the feedback gratefully received following an earlier post with screencast. The ...
A desktop log viewer 18 Jan 2011 | 12:13 pm
I’ve created a simple desktop application which is a viewer for viewing logging records sent from applications via the SocketHandler and DatagramHandler. It’s early days and the viewer is fairly simpl...
Colourising logging output in terminals 30 Dec 2010 | 12:52 am
A nice-to-have feature when logging to terminals is to have the output colourised, typically according to the severity of individual messages. This is fairly straightforward to achieve, but the follow...
