[Python-Dev] PEP 282: A Logging System -- comments please (original) (raw)

Michael McLay mclay@nist.gov
Fri, 15 Feb 2002 21:43:33 -0500

On Friday 15 February 2002 07:43 pm, Trent Mick wrote:

Howdy all,

I would appreciate any comments you might have on this proposal for adding a logging system to the Python Standard Library. This PEP is still an early draft so please forward your comments just to me directly for now.

I scanned the PEP and didn't find a reference to the logging package supporting logging over a network.

Influences

This proposal was put together after having somewhat studied the following logging packages: o java.util.logging in JDK 1.4 (a.k.a. JSR047) [1] o log4j [2] These two systems are very similar. o the Syslog package from the Protomatter project [3] o MAL's mx.Log package [4] This proposal will basically look like java.util.logging with a smattering of log4j.

Marshal Rose submitted RFC3195[1] to the IETF for a syslog protocol. The specification is defined as a profile on top of the BEEP framework. The format of the messages are encoded in XML. Here is an example of an "entry" element. 

 C: <entry facility='8' severity='6' 
  C:   hostname='pipeworks'
  C:   timestamp='Oct 31 23:59:59'
  C:  >&lt;.....eeeek!</entry>

[1] http://www.beepcore.org/beepcore/docs/rfc3195.html.