logconfdump

Python module useful to dump current configuration of logging module to file.

Status: Pre-alpha - working, but pending reorganization.

Motivation

Python has beautiful standard module logging. It has easy usage interface. Besides this it has very flexible configuration. However flexible configuration means that configuration interface is not so easy. There are several ways to setup log filtering and output:

• Call to logging.basicConfig() can setup several basic parameters.
• Call to logging.config.fileConfig() can load configuration from INI-format file.
• Call to logging.config.dictConfig() can load configuration from python dictionary. Which itself can be loaded from almost any file format - JSON, YAML and so on.
• At last you can manually create every needed logger, handler and formatter.

There are logconf.py by Vinay Sajip (original author of logging module) that can help you prepare configuration file for fileConfig().

However there are no way to migrate from one configuration way to another.

Introduction

This module intended to create file for fileConfig() from current configuration. Also there are plans for exporting current configuration to dictionary sutable for dictConfig(). This can be used to:

• Create initial config file from basicConfig().
• Convert config from one format to another.
• Migrate from manually crafted calls of module factories and methods to one of config file formats.

Usage

Simple sample:

import logging
import logconfdump
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.ERROR, filename='example1.log')
logconfdump.dump_config('example1.ini')

This will create following example1.ini file:

[loggers]
keys=root

[handlers]
keys=hand1

[formatters]
keys=form1

[logger_root]
channel=
qualname=(root)
level=ERROR
parent=
handlers=hand1

[handler_hand1]
class=FileHandler
args=('example1.log', 'a')
filename=example1.log
mode=a
formatter=form1
level=NOTSET

[formatter_form1]
format=%(levelname)s:%(name)s:%(message)s
datefmt=

Later you can use it like this:

import logging.config
logging.config.fileConfig('example1.ini')

Plans

• Convert from spaghetti code. Implement exporters for standard handlers/formatters.
• Implement dump_dict().
• Implement internal and pluggable protocol for exporting non-standard handlers/formatters.
• Write CLI converters (pylog_conf2yaml and alike).