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<h1 class="page-title">PEP 337 – Logging Usage in the Standard Library</h1>
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<dd class="field-odd">Michael P. Dubner <dubnerm at mindless.com></dd>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#abstract" role="doc-backlink">Abstract</a></h2>
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<p>This PEP defines a standard for using the logging system (<a class="pep reference internal" href="../pep-0282/" title="PEP 282 – A Logging System">PEP 282</a>) in the
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standard library.</p>
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<p>Implementing this PEP will simplify development of daemon
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applications. As a downside this PEP requires slight
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modifications (however in a back-portable way) to a large number
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<p>After implementing this PEP one can use following filtering
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scheme:</p>
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<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'py.BaseHTTPServer'</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">setLevel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">FATAL</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#pep-deferral" role="doc-backlink">PEP Deferral</a></h2>
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<p>Further exploration of the concepts covered in this PEP has been deferred
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for lack of a current champion interested in promoting the goals of the
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PEP and collecting and incorporating feedback, and with sufficient
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available time to do so effectively.</p>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#rationale" role="doc-backlink">Rationale</a></h2>
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<p>There are a couple of situations when output to stdout or stderr
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is impractical:</p>
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<li>Daemon applications where the framework doesn’t allow the
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redirection of standard output to some file, but assumes use of
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some other form of logging. Examples are syslog under *nix’es
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and EventLog under WinNT+.</li>
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<li>GUI applications which want to output every new log entry in
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separate pop-up window (i.e. fading OSD).</li>
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<p>Also sometimes applications want to filter output entries based on
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their source or severity. This requirement can’t be implemented
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using simple redirection.</p>
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<p>Finally sometimes output needs to be marked with event timestamps,
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which can be accomplished with ease using the logging system.</p>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#proposal" role="doc-backlink">Proposal</a></h2>
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<p>Every module usable for daemon and GUI applications should be
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rewritten to use the logging system instead of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">print</span></code> or
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<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sys.stdout.write</span></code>.</p>
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<p>There should be code like this included in the beginning of every
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modified module:</p>
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<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging</span>
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<span class="n">_log</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'py.<module-name>'</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<p>A prefix of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">py.</span></code> <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id2" id="id1">[2]</a> must be used by all modules included in the
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standard library distributed along with Python, and only by such
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modules (unverifiable). The use of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_log</span></code> is intentional as we
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don’t want to auto-export it. For modules that use log only in
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one class a logger can be created inside the class definition as
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follows:</p>
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<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">XXX</span><span class="p">:</span>
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<span class="n">__log</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'py.<module-name>'</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<p>Then this class can create access methods to log to this private
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<p>So <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">print</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sys.std{out|err}.write</span></code> statements should be
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replaced with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_log.{debug|info}</span></code>, and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">traceback.print_exception</span></code>
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with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_log.exception</span></code> or sometimes <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_log.debug('...',</span> <span class="pre">exc_info=1)</span></code>.</p>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#module-list" role="doc-backlink">Module List</a></h2>
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<p>Here is a (possibly incomplete) list of modules to be reworked:</p>
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<li>pipes (Template.makepipeline)</li>
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<li>pkgutil (extend_path)</li>
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<li>platform (_syscmd_ver)</li>
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<p>Additionally there are a couple of modules with commented debug
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<li>tabnanny (check)</li>
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<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#guidelines-for-logging-usage" role="doc-backlink">Guidelines for Logging Usage</a></h2>
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<p>Also we can provide some recommendation to authors of library
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modules so they all follow the same format of naming loggers. I
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propose that non-standard library modules should use loggers named
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after their full names, so a module “spam” in sub-package “junk”
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of package “dummy” will be named “dummy.junk.spam” and, of course,
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the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">__init__</span></code> module of the same sub-package will have the logger
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<dd><a class="reference external" href="https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-October/049282.html">https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-October/049282.html</a></aside>
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