Logging

The logging in stpipe is built on the Python standard library’s logging module. For detailed information about logging, refer to the documentation there. This document basically outlines some simple conventions to follow so that the configuration mechanism described in Logging works.

Logging from a Step or Pipeline

Each Step instance (and thus also each Pipeline instance) has a log member, which is a Python logging.Logger instance. All messages from the Step should use this object to log messages. For example, from a process method:

self.log.info("This Step wants to say something")

Logging from library code

Often, you may want to log something from code that is oblivious to the concept of stpipe Steps. In that case, stpipe has special code that allows library code to use any logger and have those messages appear as if they were coming from the step that used the library. All the library code has to do is use a Python logging.Logger as normal:

import logging

# ...
log = logging.getLogger()

# If the log on its own won’t emit, neither will it in the
# context of an stpipe step, so make sure the level is set to
# allow everything through
log.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

def my_library_call():
    # ...
    log.info("I want to make note of something")
    # ...