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guettli
guettli

Reputation: 27129

handle log messages with newlines

At the moment we handle log message from our python scripts like this:

This works well, but if there are newlines in the log message, this does not work, since the check-logfiles tool works line based.

Example:

logger.info('foo\nbar')

Example output:

2014-07-10 11:52:11 foo.utils.importutils: INFO    [18473] foo
bar

The foo line gets filtered, but bar gets mailed to us.

How to handle this better? I want foo\nbar be handled like one message.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 344

Answers (1)

Jan Vlcinsky
Jan Vlcinsky

Reputation: 44152

Consider using log mail handler

e.g. with logbook package, logbook.MailHandler handler can handle even complex log records, there is even an option to set up template, rendering e-mail content based on logged record attributes.

The log record in this case holds log message in a structure, which does not suffer from new lines mess as if you write the logs to text file.

Python stdlib logging also provides SMTPHandler, but here I cannot serve with real experience.

Upvotes: 1

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