logzero

Robust and effective logging for Python 2 and 3.

Documentation: https://logzero.readthedocs.io
GitHub: https://github.com/metachris/logzero

Features

Easy logging to console and/or (rotating) file.
Provides a fully configured standard Python logger object.
Pretty formatting, including level-specific colors in the console.
Windows color output supported by colorama
Robust against str/bytes encoding problems, works with all kinds of character encodings and special characters.
Multiple loggers can write to the same logfile (also across multiple Python files).
Global default logger with logzero.logger and custom loggers with logzero.setup_logger(..).
Compatible with Python 2 and 3.
All contained in a single file.
Licensed under the MIT license.
Heavily inspired by the Tornado web framework.

Example Usage

from logzero import logger

logger.debug("hello")
logger.info("info")
logger.warn("warn")
logger.error("error")

# This is how you'd log an exception
try:
    raise Exception("this is a demo exception")
except Exception as e:
    logger.exception(e)

Adding a rotating logfile is that easy:

import logzero
from logzero import logger

# Setup rotating logfile with 3 rotations, each with a maximum filesize of 1MB:
logzero.logfile("/tmp/rotating-logfile.log", maxBytes=1e6, backupCount=3)

# Log messages
logger.info("This log message goes to the console and the logfile")

Here are more examples which show how to use logfiles, custom formatters and setting a minimum loglevel:

import logging
import logzero
from logzero import logger

# This log message goes to the console
logger.debug("hello")

# Set a minimum log level
logzero.loglevel(logging.INFO)

# Set a logfile (all future log messages are also saved there)
logzero.logfile("/tmp/logfile.log")

# You can also set a different loglevel for the file handler
logzero.logfile("/tmp/logfile.log", loglevel=logging.ERROR)

# Set a rotating logfile (replaces the previous logfile handler)
logzero.logfile("/tmp/rotating-logfile.log", maxBytes=1000000, backupCount=3)

# Disable logging to a file
logzero.logfile(None)

# Set a custom formatter
formatter = logging.Formatter('%(name)s - %(asctime)-15s - %(levelname)s: %(message)s');
logzero.formatter(formatter)

# Log some variables
logger.info("var1: %s, var2: %s", var1, var2)

Take a look at the documentation for more information and examples:

Documentation: https://logzero.readthedocs.io.

Installation

Install logzero with pip:

$ pip install -U logzero

If you don't have pip installed, this Python installation guide can guide you through the process.

Alternatively, if you use the Anaconda distribution:

$ conda config --add channels conda-forge
$ conda install logzero

You can also install logzero from the public Github repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/metachris/logzero.git
$ cd logzero
$ python setup.py install

On openSUSE you can install the current version from repos: python2-logzero, python3-logzero. In the newest openSUSE release you can install it with zypper: sudo zypper in python2-logzero.

Changelog

See the changelog here: https://github.com/metachris/logzero/blob/master/HISTORY.rst

Feedback

All kinds of feedback and contributions are welcome.