[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I'm writing a server and I want to use the logging module for logging > stuff. I want to log all transactions in detail, and if everything goes > haywire I want to know which client did it. Therefore I want to affix > the client address to every single log item. > > I would like to do the following: > Formatter("[%(client_addr)s]: %(message)s") > ... > logger.critical("Offal Barrage Detected: Running Away", client_addr = > 'french.knights.org') > > I've written something that accomplishes this (example below), but I > have this nagging feeling that this could have been done in a better > way. Any ideas? > > When test.py executes it prints this: > [WARNING|2006-05-08 23:44:57,421|internal]: Unable to Pronounce 'ni!' > [WARNING|2006-05-08 23:44:57,421|french.knights.nu]: Incoming Bovine > Detected > > I'm grateful for any advice. > > Cheers! > /Joel Hedlund >
See a very similar example which uses the new 'extra' keyword argument: http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/module-logging.html The example is for a similar use case to yours - showing the IP address of a client in a logging message. Best regards, Vinay Sajip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list