Reusable Logging in Django Apps

mihasya — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:21:45 +0000

I have 3 drafts sitting in my queue – 1 really long post and 2 short ones. I’ve been picking away at the long post on the shuttle rides, but in the meantime I’m gonna try to push out the two quick ones. This is one of the quick ones.

I was trying to figure out how to set up reusable logging in my apps and have it fairly decoupled from the overall project. Here’s what I came up with:

Set up a logger object using these instructions in settings.py and store it in the LOGGER variable.
Grab it inside apps using django.conf.settings like so:

from django.conf import settings
try:
    logging = settings.LOGGER
except AttributeError:
    import logging

Then just use logging.debug, logging.info etc. Thus, if a LOGGER is configured inside the project’s settings.py, we use that (django.conf.settings points to the settings.py for whatever project you’re working inside of, so you can move your app project to project no problem). Otherwise, we just use vanilla logging functions with the global logging configuration. Nice and sweet.

Suggestions on other ways to do this are, as always, welcome.

Example on django snippets: here.

mikhail panchenko / blog » logging

Reusable Logging in Django Apps