Hi, the problem screams for a separate thread. Anyway there's a TimedRotatingFileHandler handler in the logging package: you can derive from it and change the emit/doRollover pair to hold the records until a device is not ready.
Regards, Antonio On Tuesday 09 June 2009 16:57:00 kretel wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to implement the following functionality: > 1. log messages to the flash drive > 2. if the flash drive is not available, switch handler to the > BufferringHandler and log into buffer, > 3. once the flash drive is plugged in and available store the logs > from BufferHandler into that flash drive and switch the handler into > RotateFileHandler. > > Which approach would you suggest to use while implementing this > functionality? One that come into my mind is to have one process or > thread to check periodically if the flashdrive is available, and have > a flag that will indicate that we can store the logs into the flash > drive. But I don't particularly like this approach. > Would you do it different way? > Any suggestions are appreciated. > > Cheers, > Krzysztof -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
