richstructlog4 1.0.1

Rich-formatted structured logging for Python with automatic syntax highlighting and beautiful console output.

richstructlog4

Structured logging with structlog, rendered for humans with rich.

richstructlog4 gives you:

• Readable console output with timestamps, levels, and key/value fields.
• Stream routing: WARNING and above go to stderr, everything below goes to stdout.
• Optional file logging: if you pass log_file, all logs are also written to that file in a plain, ANSI-free format.

Requirements

• Python: 3.8+
• Dependencies: structlog, rich

Install

From PyPI:

pip install richstructlog4

From Git:

pip install git+https://github.com/MapIV/richstructlog4

Quick start

from richstructlog4 import Logger

log = Logger(log_level="INFO")

log.info("server started", host="127.0.0.1", port=8080)
log.warning("disk space is low", path="/var")

Console routing (stdout vs stderr)

• stdout: levels below WARNING
• stderr: WARNING and above

This is useful for CLI tools and scripts where you want to pipe normal output but keep warnings/errors separate.

File logging (plain text)

Pass log_file to also write every event to a file. The file output is plain text (no ANSI escape codes).

from richstructlog4 import Logger

log = Logger(log_file="app.log", log_level="DEBUG")
log.debug("debug goes to file")
log.info("info goes to stdout and file")
log.error("error goes to stderr and file")

Structured fields

Add extra fields as keyword arguments. They are shown as key/value pairs in console output and included in file logs.

log.info("user login", user_id="123", ip="192.168.1.1")
log.error("db connection failed", retry_count=3, database="users")

Rich markup and highlighting

Console output supports Rich markup in message strings.

log.info("Here are rich text markup examples:")
log.info(" - We are hiring. Visit our [link=https://map4.jp]website[/link]!")
log.warning(" - We are going to have a problem")
log.error(" - [bold red]ALERT![/bold red] Something happened")

It also highlights common patterns (HTML/XML, IPs, MACs, UUIDs, literals, numbers, paths, URLs).

log.info("The following texts are automatically highlighted:")
log.info(" - XML/HTML: `<tag>content</tag>`")
log.info(" - IP addresses: `192.168.1.1`, `2001:db8::1`")
log.info(" - MAC addresses: `00:1B:44:11:3A:B7`")
log.info(" - UUIDs: `123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000`")
log.info(" - Python literals: `True`, `False`, `None`")
log.info(" - Numbers: `42`, `3.14`, `1+2j`")
log.info(" - Paths: `/usr/local/bin`")
log.info(" - URLs: `https://map4.jp`")

Development

This project uses uv for running tools.

uv run ruff check
uv run ty check
uv run pytest --cov

License

MIT