timebased-logger 0.1.4

A logger that logs messages based on time intervals, not message count.

TimeBasedLogger

A Python logger that only logs messages at a specified time interval.

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🚀 Production-Grade Features

• Log Levels: DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL, with filtering and convenience methods.
• Log Formatting: Customizable log message format (default: [{{level}}] {{asctime}} {{message}}).
• Exception Logging: Log exceptions with stack traces using exc_info=True.
• Structured/Extra Data: Add extra fields to log records for structured logging.

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Project Links

• PyPI
• GitHub

Installation

Install from PyPI:

pip install timebased-logger

Or, just copy timebased_logger.py into your project.

Features

• Log messages only once per specified interval
• Limit the number of logs per interval (max_logs_per_interval)
• Pause and resume logging
• Custom time function for advanced testing
• High performance async mode: background logging with batching
• Thread safety: optional locking for multi-threaded use
• Log levels, formatting, and exception logging (see below)

Usage

Basic Usage

from timebased_logger import TimeBasedLogger
logger = TimeBasedLogger(interval_seconds=2)
logger.log("Hello")
logger.log("World")  # Will not log if called within 2 seconds

Log Levels and Filtering

logger = TimeBasedLogger(level='WARNING')
logger.info("This will NOT be logged")
logger.warning("This will be logged")
logger.error("This will also be logged")

Convenience Methods

logger.debug("Debug message")
logger.info("Info message")
logger.warning("Warning message")
logger.error("Error message")
logger.critical("Critical message")

Log Formatting

logger = TimeBasedLogger(fmt='[{level}] {asctime} {message}')
logger.info("Formatted log message")

Exception Logging

try:
    1/0
except ZeroDivisionError:
    logger.error("An error occurred", exc_info=True)

Structured/Extra Data

logger = TimeBasedLogger(fmt='[{level}] {user} {message}')
logger.info("User logged in", extra={'user': 'alice'})

API Documentation

TimeBasedLogger