Question

I’m trying to write a simple logger in Jython, and I can’t seem to find any working examples online.

I have checked http://www.jython.org/docs/library/logging.html but the code doesn’t seem to work for me.

I just want to have a simple loop that logs a string with a timestamp and a message (log number/count) to a log file every thirty seconds. I am doing this in Windows using Sikuli.

Example of log message:

2012-04-26 13:25:51 message number 75

Can anyone help me out.

Thanks in advance,

Marwan

PS – I have never used Jython before.

Answer 1

For such a simple thing you can write simple routine:

import time

LOG_CNT = 0

def log(msg):
    global LOG_CNT
    LOG_CNT += 1
    dts = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
    f = open('log.txt', 'a')
    f.write('%s: msg# %d: %s\n' % (dts, LOG_CNT, msg))
    f.close()


def test():
    log('zorro')
    time.sleep(5)
    log('bubu')


test()