logmap 0.3.0

A hierarchical, context-manager logger utility with multiprocess mapping capabilities

logmap

A hierarchical context-manager logger with multiprocess mapping.

Install

pip install logmap

Usage

from logmap import logmap

Basic

with logmap('testing...'):
    # ... do something ...
    pass

⎾ testing... @ 2026-04-19 15:12:55,349
⎿ 0 seconds @ 2026-04-19 15:12:55,349

Duration

with logmap('testing...') as lm:
    naptime = lm.nap()

assert naptime == lm.duration

⎾ testing... @ 2026-04-19 15:12:55,349
￨ napping for 0.6 seconds @ 2026-04-19 15:12:55,349
⎿ 0.6 seconds @ 2026-04-19 15:12:55,954

Nested

Nesting indents automatically. lm.log("msg") writes at the current depth.

with logmap('outer') as lm:
    with logmap('middle') as lm2:
        with logmap('inner') as lm3:
            lm3.nap()

⎾ outer @ 2026-04-19 15:12:55,954
￨ ⎾ middle @ 2026-04-19 15:12:55,954
￨ ￨ ⎾ inner @ 2026-04-19 15:12:55,954
￨ ￨ ￨ napping for 0.2 seconds @ 2026-04-19 15:12:55,954
￨ ￨ ⎿ 0.2 seconds @ 2026-04-19 15:12:56,159
￨ ⎿ 0.2 seconds @ 2026-04-19 15:12:56,159
⎿ 0.2 seconds @ 2026-04-19 15:12:56,159

Parallel map

import random, time

def fn(naptime):
    t = random.random() * naptime / 2
    time.sleep(t)
    return t

with logmap('function mapping') as lm:
    results = lm.map(fn, list(range(5)), num_proc=2)

⎾ function mapping @ 2026-04-19 15:12:56,159
￨ mapping fn to 5 objects [2x]: 100%|██████████| 5/5 [00:02<00:00, 2.31it/s]
⎿ 2.2 seconds @ 2026-04-19 15:12:58,335

For streaming results as they arrive:

with logmap('function mapping') as lm:
    for res in lm.imap(fn, list(range(5)), num_proc=2):
        lm.log(f'got {res:.2f}')   # updates the progress bar

lm.run(...) is the same but discards results — useful when you only care about side effects.

Module-level helpers pmap, pmap_iter, pmap_run provide the same semantics without a logmap context:

from logmap import pmap
pmap(fn, items, num_proc=4)

Note: logmap uses stdlib multiprocessing, so functions passed to parallel map must be picklable (defined at module level — no lambdas or closures).

Without a with block

# just a logger
lm = logmap('app')
lm.log('ready')
lm.warning('careful')

# explicit lifecycle (equivalent to a `with` block)
lm = logmap('manual').start()
lm.log('doing stuff')
lm.stop()

Redirecting output

logmap writes to sys.stderr by default. Use configure() to redirect:

from logmap import configure
import sys

configure(sink=sys.stdout)          # e.g. so it doesn't mingle with stderr diagnostics
configure(sink="run.log")           # path — opened line-buffered
configure(sink=my_stringio)         # any writable stream
configure(level="INFO")             # drop DEBUG messages

Colors auto-disable when the sink isn't a TTY (files, StringIO, etc.).

Stdlib logging integration

Route all logmap output through a standard library logging.Logger:

import logging
from logmap import configure

configure(logger=logging.getLogger("myapp"))

This lets you attach any stdlib handler (file, syslog, etc.) and have logmap participate in your application's logging hierarchy. Level integers match stdlib conventions, so filtering works as expected. Pass logger=None to switch back to direct sink output.

Structured (JSON) output

For log aggregation or machine parsing, enable JSON-lines mode:

configure(structured=True)

Each line becomes a JSON object:

{"ts": "2026-04-19T15:12:55.349000", "level": "INFO", "msg": "doing work", "depth": 1, "task": "outer"}

The msg field contains the clean message (no indentation prefix), while depth and task give you the hierarchical context as structured data.

Silencing

with logmap.quiet():
    with logmap('no output'):       # nothing gets printed
        ...

logmap.disable()                    # global off switch
logmap.enable()                     # back on

with logmap('task', announce=False): suppresses just the open/close lines while keeping lm.log() active.

Thread safety

Nesting depth and quiet state are thread-local — multiple threads can use logmap concurrently without interleaving indentation or silencing each other. Output writes are serialized with a lock to prevent garbled lines.

Multiprocessing on macOS

On macOS, logmap defaults to the forkserver multiprocessing context instead of fork (which Python 3.12+ deprecates due to deadlock risk with threads). You can still pass context="spawn" or context="fork" explicitly to lm.map() / pmap() if needed.