-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You may also want to try a error handling like this.
It is platform clean and uses the system standard logging routines. import os, logging, logging.handlers def eventlogger(level,message): """ Sent trapped events to NT application event logger """ if os.name == "nt": logger = logging.getLogger("") logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG) ntl = logging.handlers.NTEventLogHandler("Program Event Logger Message") logger.addHandler(ntl) try: method = getattr(logger,level) message = "%s message: %s" % (level.capitalize(),message) method(message) sys.exit(0) except AttributeError: method = logger.critical message = "Uncoded event level" method(message) sys.exit(1) else : import syslog, time timestamp = time.asctime(time.localtime(time.time())) logmsg = "Event Logger - %s - %s :: $s " % (timestamp, level.capitalize(),message) syslogg.syslog(logmsg) You then call it as a function from wherever an error gets raised. msg="OH NO - blue screen of death" eventlogger("error",msg) msg="OH NO - system slow - scary but you will live" eventlogger("warning",msg) msg="Shh - don't tell anyone but it worked" eventlogger("info",msg) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: GnuPT 2.7.2 iD8DBQFEmEB2Dvn/4H0LjDwRAhlmAKCzch2JVynMsNcCY9Cnu8crMqN5fQCfQJWu ZT8frQiRZXKJZMLeGnyeFbM= =zCBc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor