Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like my different threads to log without stepping on each
> other.
> Past advice on this list (that I've found) mostly says to send the
> messages to a Queue. That would work, but bypasses the logging
> module's facilities.
> The logging module itself is "thread-safe", but I think that just
> means that individual output is protected. If I have, in temporarly
> sequence:
> thread 1: warning("A")
> thread 2: info("something")
> thread 1: warning("B")
> then I think I'll get them output in this order. It's thread-safe in
> that the log will not end up with an entry like
> A
> some
> B
> thing
> (I think). But I want to get, for example,
> A
> B
> something
> What I would like is for each thread to emit a chunk of log messages
> when it finishes a unit of work.
This sounds like a job for the Queue class/module to me.
Could you create a Queue such that all your worker threads
are producers to it and you have one dedicated thread as a
consumer that relays log entries from the Queue into your loggers?
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