README.md

Relog - Replace root python logging in python libraries

Introduction

This MODIFIES code.

3rd party python libraries using root logging got you down?

Use Relog to replace their calls with namespaced logging.

This is a temporary solution (HACK!). The real solution is to get the a library's maintainers to use logging.getLogger('foo') intead of the default root logger.

Usage

relog <pylibrarypath>

Example

Run this to fix the root logging in all the .py files in the google_appengine directory:

 relog google_appengine

What it does

This:

logging.warn("someone's behind you")

will be replaced with this:

logging.getLogger(__name__).warn("someone's behind you")

This allows you to quiet their logging calls with something like this:

logging.getLogger('annoying.library').setLevel(logging.ERROR)

Todo

This isn't very fast. I'll make a faster version if I end up having to use this a lot.