On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 09:35:25PM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I'd like to see a logging module in the standard Python library. Is anybody interested in helping spec out requirements and work on an implementation? Some ideas from Zope's zLOG module should probably go into it (it should eventually be a replacement for that), and some from log4j (http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/).
Any takers?
I'll take it. I have been (slowly) working on a log4j translation, trying to stay as close to log4j's API as possible. I'll take a look at zLOG.
[Aahz said]
I'm not sure I'm a "taker", but I did a bit of research and found log4p, http://log4p.sourceforge.net/
That one has not seen any development for ages and I don't believe it is even functional.
There *is* a log4py out there. http://www.its4you.at/log4py.php http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36216 I took a quick look at it a while ago and thought it was pretty limited. Perhaps not though -- I may have been sufferring from a bout of "Not invented here."
[MAL said:]
You might want to have a look at mx.Log which is part of the egenix-mx-base distribution. It is undocumented, but reading the source should give some insights.
The basic idea is that you have logging objects which are usually created as singletons; these can then log various information depending on a fine grained verbosity level to a log file, stdout or stderr.
Sounds very similar to log4j. I'll take a look at that too.
Note that the log4j manual that is currently up (http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/manual.html) is for the current release version. They have an alpha version that cleans up the naming a little bit mainly, I think, to try to make log4j look a little bit more like the java.util.logging API.
Actually, log4j's site *used* to have a bunch of other pages up their that included links to contributed packages and ports of log4k to other languages (C, C++, Perl, Python, etc).
How about I try to have a PEP together within a week or two, and perhaps a working base implementation?
Trent