On Jun 9, 7:57 pm, Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jun 9, 8:57 am, kretel <krzysztof.re...@googlemail.com> 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. > > I'd refactor the steps this way: > > 1. log messages to a buffer > 2. periodically flush the buffer to the flash drive, if it's available > > The "periodically" part could be accomplished with a thread or > scheduled delays, however suits your application. It might not be a > final if you need to log messages promptly, but that's how I'd begin. > > Carl Banks
Hi Carl, Thanks for the advice. I haven't think about it this way, but it looks like that might be the starting point. Thanks, Krzysztof -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
