Logbook #

Logbook is a logging system for Python that replaces the standard library’s logging module.

How to install #

$ pip install logbook

Quickstart #

$ python
>>> from logbook import Logger, StreamHandler
>>> import sys
>>> StreamHandler(sys.stdout).push_application()
>>> log = Logger('My Awesome Logger')
>>> log.warn('This is too cool for stdlib')
[2015-10-05 19:02:03.575723] WARNING: My Awesome Logger: This is too cool for stdlib

Core Features #

• Based on the concept of loggers
• Has extendable built-in handlers
• Handlers can be set on an application-wide stack as well as a thread-wide stack
• Has built-in handlers for streams, arbitrary files, files with time and size based rotation
• Possibility to inject a handler for testing that records messages for assertions.
• Built-in support for ZeroMQ, RabbitMQ, Redis
• Different log levels