without-logging

A without pipeline for logs. Logger calls (yours and every third-party library's) ultimately produce a stream of records; this package parses each one into an immutable Record value, lets you filter and enrich them as ordinary processors, and drains the result into a sink you own.

The two stdlib logging pain points it targets: the impenetrable, mutable, noun-heavy configuration, and the monolithic handlers that bundle unrelated decisions (when to flush, how to rotate, how to format) into one object. Here a record is a value, each stage is a Processor, and the sink is whatever you compose.

import logging

from without import compose, from_selector, from_sink
from without_logging import Level, at_least, capture


async def write(record):
    print(f"{record.timestamp:%H:%M:%S} {record.level_name} {record.message}")


pipeline = compose(from_selector(at_least(Level.WARNING)), from_sink(write))

async with capture(pipeline):  # attaches to the root logger for the block
    logging.getLogger("app").warning("disk almost full", extra={"free_pct": 3})

capture is the one impure piece: it activates a handler on the root logger, turns the pushed records into a Stream, and runs your pipeline against them for the life of the block. Everything upstream of the sink is pure and testable without touching the logging machinery.

To write to a file without paying a thread hop per line, offload runs a blocking writer on a single dedicated thread, fed by a queue that delivers items in bursts (so the writer flushes when it catches up, no flush-frequency knob). Writers are named by destination: to_rotating_file writes to a file (owning the byte count and clock, rotating on any combination of size (max_bytes), a relative interval (max_age), and absolute wall-clock boundaries (schedule=at_times(...))), and to_stream writes to a caller-owned text stream (sys.stderr, a socket) without closing it. Both take strings (render a Record to text with a from_map in front):

from datetime import timedelta

from without import compose, from_map, from_selector
from without_logging import Level, at_least, offload, to_rotating_file

writer = to_rotating_file(lambda i, when: directory / f"app.{i}.log", max_bytes=64 << 20, max_age=timedelta(hours=1))
async with offload(writer) as sink:
    lines = compose(from_map(render), sink)  # Record -> str -> file
    async with capture(compose(from_selector(at_least(Level.WARNING)), lines)):
        ...  # WARNING+ records written off the event loop, rotated by size and time

See the without-logging guide (with the API reference) for the design narrative: why stdlib becomes a one-way source, why filtering is just the core from_selector builder, and where fan-out to multiple sinks slots in.