printinglog

Simple Logging Module

I've been using pythons built-in logging for my previous projects, but i discovered that it doesn't work as expected when running cronjobs in docker containers. The logger fails to write to the specified file because cronjobs operate in a limited environment with different permissions. They often capture standard output and error to a default file, usually cron.log in my case. While there might be ways to fix this, as a coder, it feels much better to write my own logging module; it would be a disgrace otherwise. So with this module, i can read the logs from cron.log since it uses print statements with logging formatting.

Install

Install the module with:

pip install printinglog

Usage

To start using printinglog, initialize the logger with:

from printinglog import Logger

logger = Logger()

logger.info("This is a INFO log")

You can also change how much detail you want to show in your log:

logger = Logger(format="simple")
logger.info("This is a INFO log")
>> INFO: This is a INFO log

logger = Logger(format="logging")
logger.info("This is a INFO log")
>> 2024-07-26 22:55:28 - INFO: This is a INFO log

logger = Logger(format="detailed")
logger.info("This is a INFO log")
>> 2024-07-26 22:55:28 @main - INFO: This is a INFO log

logger = Logger(format="long")
logger.info("This is a INFO log")
>> INFO: This is a INFO log
2024-07-26 22:55:28 @main<test_function> - INFO: This is a INFO log

To change the colors for each log type, you can also specify that:

default_colors = {
    "info": "green",
    "error": "red",
    "warning": "yellow",
    "debug": "blue",
}
logger = Logger(colorscheme=default_colors)

Colors to choose from:

• black
• red
• green
• yellow
• blue
• magneta
• cyan
• white