borgbackup/borg/logger.py
Thomas Waldmann d8d3c8521b fix logging levels
All normal informational output is now logged at INFO level.
To actually see normal output, the logger is configured to level INFO also.

Log levels:
WARNING is for warnings, ERROR is for (fatal) errors, DEBUG is for debugging.

logging levels must only be used according to this semantics and must not be
(ab)used to let something show up (although the logger would usually hide it)
or hide something (although the logger would usually show it).

Controlling the amount of output shown on INFO level:
--verbose, --progress, --stats are currently used for this.
more such flags might be added later as needed.

if they are set, more output is logged (at INFO level).

also: change strange setup_logging return value
2015-10-23 02:29:41 +02:00

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"""logging facilities
The way to use this is as follows:
* each module declares its own logger, using:
from .logger import create_logger
logger = create_logger()
* then each module uses logger.info/warning/debug/etc according to the
level it believes is appropriate:
logger.debug('debugging info for developers or power users')
logger.info('normal, informational output')
logger.warning('warn about a non-fatal error or sth else')
logger.error('a fatal error')
... and so on. see the `logging documentation
<https://docs.python.org/3/howto/logging.html#when-to-use-logging>`_
for more information
* console interaction happens on stderr, that includes interactive
reporting functions like `help`, `info` and `list`
* ...except ``input()`` is special, because we can't control the
stream it is using, unfortunately. we assume that it won't clutter
stdout, because interaction would be broken then anyways
* what is output on INFO level is additionally controlled by commandline
flags
"""
import inspect
import logging
import sys
def setup_logging(stream=None):
"""setup logging module according to the arguments provided
this sets up a stream handler logger on stderr (by default, if no
stream is provided).
"""
logging.raiseExceptions = False
l = logging.getLogger('')
sh = logging.StreamHandler(stream)
# other formatters will probably want this, but let's remove
# clutter on stderr
# example:
# sh.setFormatter(logging.Formatter('%(name)s: %(message)s'))
l.addHandler(sh)
l.setLevel(logging.INFO)
return sh
def find_parent_module():
"""find the name of a the first module calling this module
if we cannot find it, we return the current module's name
(__name__) instead.
"""
try:
frame = inspect.currentframe().f_back
module = inspect.getmodule(frame)
while module is None or module.__name__ == __name__:
frame = frame.f_back
module = inspect.getmodule(frame)
return module.__name__
except AttributeError:
# somehow we failed to find our module
# return the logger module name by default
return __name__
def create_logger(name=None):
"""create a Logger object with the proper path, which is returned by
find_parent_module() by default, or is provided via the commandline
this is really a shortcut for:
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
we use it to avoid errors and provide a more standard API.
"""
return logging.getLogger(name or find_parent_module())