SimpleLogger

Custom logger class using the builtin logging module

• Simplifies logging to a file
• Adds color formatting
• Adds ability to set verbosity through environment variable 'BBLOGGER_VERBOSITY'

Logger class

class SimpleLogger( logging.getLoggerClass() ):

        """
        All options and keyword arguments are optional

        Arguments:
            'name':  str - name given to logger
            'level': int [1-5] - terminal output logging level - default is 3

        Keyword Arguments:
            'date_fmt':        str ['%H:%M:%S'] - date format string
            'html_theme':      str ['plain'] - html theme to use when writing html or pdf
                                - see SimpleLogger.view_html_themes() to print examples
            'terminal_output': bool [True] - whether or not to output logs to terminal
            'logfile':         str - plaintext log file to write in realtime
            'overwrite':       bool [False] - overwrite logfile at initial start of program if existing
            'logfile_level':   int [1-4] - limit logs at or above level given - default is 1
            'logfile_title':   str - prepend text to logfile (shows date and time only by default)
                                - also applies to html/pdf if used
            'to_html':         str [path] - write logs to an html file at exit of program
            'to_pdf':          bool - use with 'to_html' to instead save a pdf
                                - REQUIREMENT: chrome or chromium and bash in system path
        """


from simplelogger import SimpleLogger
log = SimpleLogger( __name__, 2, logfile = "/home/user/log/my-logfile" )

#
# Setting level does not effect log file
# Log file recieves all logs by default
#

Changelog

• v0.1.0
  • initial release