Log a line in my daily log.

Latest release 20240305: Initial PyPI release.

This is an upgrade from my venerable shell script, whose logic was becoming unwieldy.

I more or less live in the shell, so I log activity with brief 1-line shell command commands eg:

dlog HOME: set up the whatchamgig

which I alias as dl, with additional aliases like HOME for dl HOME: and so forth; as short a throwaway line as I can get away with. In particular, I use this to make notes about work activity (none of the several time tracking tools I've tried work for me) and things like banking and purchases eg:

dl MYBANK,VENDOR: xfer \$99 to vendor for widget from bank acct rcpt 1234567

I've got scripts to pull out the work ones for making invoices and an assortment of other scripts (eg my alert script) also log via dlog.

The current incarnation logs to a flat text file (default ~/var/dlog-quick) and to SQLTags SQLite database. It has a little daemon mode to reduce contention for the SQLite database too.

Class DLog

A log entry.

Function dlog(headline: str, *, logpath: Optional[str] = None, sqltags: Optional[cs.sqltags.SQLTags] = '~/var/sqltags.sqlite', tags=None, categories: Optional[Iterable] = None, when: Union[NoneType, int, float, datetime.datetime] = None)

Log headline to the dlog.

Parameters:

• headline: the log line message
• logpath: optional text log pathname, default ~/var/log/dlog-quick from DEFAULT_LOGPATH
• sqltags: optional SQLTags instance, default uses ~/var/sqltags.sqlite from DEFAULT_DBPATH
• tags: optional iterable of Tags to associate with the log entry
• categories: optional iterable of category strings
• when: optional UNIX time or datetime, default now

Class DLogCommand(cs.cmdutils.BaseCommand)

The dlog command line implementation.

Command line usage:

Usage: dlog subcommand [...]
  Subcommands:
    daemon [pipepath]
      Listen on pipepath for new dlog messages.
      This serialises contention for the database.
    help [-l] [subcommand-names...]
      Print help for subcommands.
      This outputs the full help for the named subcommands,
      or the short help for all subcommands if no names are specified.
      -l  Long help even if no subcommand-names provided.
    log [{CATEGORIES:|tag=value}...] headline
      Log headline to the dlog.
      Options:
      -c categories   Alternate categories specification.
      -d datetime     Timestamp for the log entry instead of "now".
    scan [{-|filename}]...
      Scan log files and report.
    shell
      Run a command prompt via cmd.Cmd using this command's subcommands.

Function main(argv=None)

Run the dlog command line implementation.

Release Log

Release 20240305: Initial PyPI release.