macos-oslog - Python bindings for the unified logging and tracing system of macOS

Overview

This package is only for macOS and requires macOS 10.12 or higher.

Its purpose is to insert log messages into the unified logging and tracing system of macOS. It does not support reading the unified log.

Installation

To install the latest released version of the macos_oslog package into your active Python environment:

$ pip install macos-oslog

This will also install any prerequisite Python packages.

For more details and alternative ways to install, see Installation.

Documentation

• Documentation for latest released version

Change History

• Change history for latest released version

Quick Start

Example Python code:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import macos_oslog

log = macos_oslog.os_log_create(subsystem="com.acme.myapp", category="all")
macos_oslog.os_log(log, macos_oslog.OS_LOG_TYPE_ERROR, "Some error happened")
macos_oslog.os_log_release(log)

Example Python code using the predefined standard log provided by macOS:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import macos_oslog

macos_oslog.os_log(macos_oslog.OS_LOG_DEFAULT, macos_oslog.OS_LOG_TYPE_ERROR, "Some error happened")

Contributing

For information on how to contribute to the macos-oslog project, see Contributing.

License

The macos-oslog project is provided under the Apache Software License 2.0.