msl.qt.widgets.logger module

A QWidget to display logging messages.

class msl.qt.widgets.logger.Logger(*, level=20, fmt='%(asctime)s [%(levelname)s] -- %(name)s -- %(message)s', datefmt=None, logger=None, parent=None)

Bases: Handler, QWidget

A QWidget to display logging messages.

Parameters:

• level (int or str, optional) – The Logging Level to use to display the LogRecord.

• fmt (str, optional) – The LogRecord attributes to use to display the LogRecord.

• datefmt (str or None, optional) – The strftime format to use for the time stamp. If None then the ISO8601 date format is used, YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:SS,sss.

• logger (logging.Logger, optional) – The logging.Logger to add this logging.Handler to. If None the uses the root logging.Logger.

• parent (QtWidgets.QWidget, optional) – The parent widget.

Example

To view an example of the Logger widget run:

>>> from msl.examples.qt import logger  
>>> logger.show()  

property records

The history of all the log records.

Type:

list of LogRecord

save(path, *, level=20)

Save log records to a file.

Parameters:

• path (str) – The path to save the log records to. Appends the records to the file if the file already exists, otherwise creates a new log file. It is recommended that the file extension be .log, but not mandatory.

• level (int, optional) – All LogRecord’s with a Logging Level >= level will be saved.