Sean Reifschneider wrote:
As someone who writes mostly programs that run unattended on servers, one thing I often want to do is have my tracebacks logged to syslog. I would propose adding something like the following to the syslog module:
def logexceptions(also_stderr = True): class ExceptHook: def __init__(self, useStderr = False): self.useStderr = useStderr
def __call__(self, etype, evalue, etb): import traceback, string tb = traceback.format_exception(*(etype, evalue, etb)) tb = map(string.rstrip, tb) tb = string.join(tb, '\n') for line in string.split(tb, '\n'): syslog.syslog(line) if self.useStderr: sys.stderr.write(line + '\n') sys.excepthook = ExceptHook(also_stderr)
Now, the downside to this is that currently the syslog module is entirely in C. So either I'd need to implement the above in C, or I'd need to add a Python wrapper to the C module and use that.
This would allow users to also log exceptions to syslog by doing:
import syslog syslog.openlog('myprogram', syslog.LOG_PID, syslog.LOG_MAIL) syslog.logexceptions()
Thoughts?
I think this would be a great addition. I have to do similar things all of the time, although I never though of using sys.excepthook, for some reason. I'll have to steal your code in the meantime! A simpler pure Python version would be: from __future__ import print_function def logexceptions(also_stderr=True): import sys import traceback import syslog def syslog_exception(etype, evalue, etb): # The result of traceback.format_exception might contain # embedded newlines, so we have the nested loops. for line in traceback.format_exception(etype, evalue, etb): for line in line.rstrip().split('\n'): syslog.syslog(line) if also_stderr: print(line, file=sys.stderr) sys.excepthook = syslog_exception logexceptions(True) If you need any help implementing this in C, I'll assist (although I'm out of town for 2 weeks starting Thursday). -- Eric.