README.rst

Alog

Your goto Python logging without panic on context swtich.

Warning: No more logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) in your every file.

>>> import alog
>>> alog.info("Hi.")
2016-12-18 20:44:30 INFO  <stdin> Hi.
>>> def test():
...     alog.info("Test 1")
...     alog.error("Test 2")
...
>>> test()
2016-12-18 20:45:19 INFO  <stdin:2> Test 1
2016-12-18 20:45:19 ERROR <stdin:3> Test 2
>>> alog.set_level("ERROR")
>>> test()
2016-12-18 20:45:41 ERROR <stdin:3> Test 2

If you're new to logging, see Why should you use logging instead of print.

Installation

pip install alog

Features

• Instant logging with expected defaults.

  You can do logging instantly by reading a small piece of README. Alog comes with useful defaults:

  • A default logger.

  • Logging level: logging.INFO

  • Logging format:

    "%(asctime)s %(levelname)-5.5s [parent_module.current_module:%(lineno)s]%(message)s",
    "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
    

• No more __name__ whenever you start to do logging in a module.

  Alog builds the default module names on the fly.

• Compatible with default Python logging module.

  Alog is built upon default Python logging module. You can configure it by the same way of default Python logging module when it's needed.

Comparing alog with Python default logging module

Comparing alog :

In [1]: import alog

In [2]: alog.info("Hello alog!")
2016-11-23 12:20:34 INFO  <IPython> Hello alog!

with logging module:

In [1]: import logging

In [2]: logging.basicConfig(
   ...:     level=logging.INFO,
   ...:     format="%(asctime)s %(levelname)-5.5s "
   ...:            "[%(name)s:%(lineno)s] %(message)s")

In [3]: # In every file you want to do log, otherwise %(names)s won't work.
In [4]: logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

In [5]: logger.info("Hello log!")
2016-11-23 12:16:30 INFO  [__main__:1] Hello log!

Tips

import alog

a_complex_json_dict = {...}  # or a_complex_dict
alog.info(alog.pformat(a_complex_dict))

restaurant = Restaurant(...)
alog.info(alog.pdir(restaurant))
# or just skip attributes starts with "__":
alog.info(alog.pdir(restaurant, str_not_startswith="__"))
# instead of
alog.info([attr for attr in dir(restaurant) if attr.startswith("_")])

# Play threads?
alog.turn_logging_thread_name(on=True)
# Processes?
alog.turn_logging_process_id(on=True)
# No datetime wanted?
alog.turn_logging_datetime(on=False)

Why should you use logging instead of print

The main goal of logging is to figure out what was going on and to get the insight. print, by default, does simply pure string output. No timestamp, no module hint, and no level control, comparing to a pretty logging record.

Lets start with aproject/models/user.py :

class User:
    def __init__(self, user_id, username):
        ...
        print(username)
        ...

What you got output of print :

>>> admin = User(1, "admin")
"admin"

Now use alog :

import alog

class User:
    def __init__(self, user_id, username):
        ...
        alog.info(username)
        ...

What you got output of alog.info :

>>> admin = User(1, "admin")
2016-11-23 11:32:58 INFO  [models.user:6] admin

In the output of hundreds of lines, it helps (a lot).

What if you have used print a log? That's as easy:

import alog

print = alog.info

... # A lot of print code no needed to change