tasklogger 0.4.0

tasklogger

An extension to the core python logging library for logging the beginning and completion of tasks and subtasks.

Installation

tasklogger is available on pip. Install by running the following in a terminal:

pip install --user tasklogger

Alternatively, tasklogger can be installed using Conda (most easily obtained via the Miniconda Python distribution):

conda install -c conda-forge tasklogger

Usage example

Use tasklogger for all your logging needs - receive timed updates mid-computation using tasklogger.log_start and tasklogger.log_complete:

>>> import tasklogger
>>> import time
>>> tasklogger.log_start("Supertask")
Calculating Supertask...
>>> time.sleep(1)
>>> tasklogger.log_start("Subtask")
Calculating Subtask...
>>> time.sleep(1)
>>> tasklogger.log_complete("Subtask")
Calculated Subtask in 1.01 seconds.
>>> time.sleep(1)
>>> tasklogger.log_complete("Supertask")
Calculated Supertask in 3.02 seconds.
>>> tasklogger.log_info("Log some stuff that doesn't need timing")
Log some stuff that doesn't need timing
>>> tasklogger.log_debug("Log some stuff that normally isn't needed")
>>> tasklogger.set_level(2)
Set TaskLogger logging to DEBUG
>>> tasklogger.log_debug("Log some stuff that normally isn't needed")
Log some stuff that normally isn't needed