Although most logging messages are intended for reading by humans, and thus not
readily machine-parseable, there might be cirumstances where you want to output
messages in a structured format which *is* capable of being parsed by a program
-(without needed complex regular expressions to parse the log message). This is
+(without needing complex regular expressions to parse the log message). This is
straightforward to achieve using the logging package. There are a number of
ways in which this could be achieved, but the following is a simple approach
which uses JSON to serialise the event in a machine-parseable manner::
message 1 >>> {"fnum": 123.456, "num": 123, "bar": "baz", "foo": "bar"}
+Note that the order of items might be different according to the version of
+Python used.
+
If you need more specialised processing, you can use a custom JSON encoder,
as in the following complete example::
import json
import logging
+ # This next bit is to ensure the script runs unchanged on 2.x and 3.x
try:
unicode
except NameError:
s = Encoder().encode(self.kwargs)
return '%s >>> %s' % (self.message, s)
- _ = StructuredMessage
+ _ = StructuredMessage # optional, to improve readability
def main():
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format='%(message)s')
message 1 >>> {"snowman": "\u2603", "set_value": [1, 2, 3]}
+Note that the order of items might be different according to the version of
+Python used.
+