[Matt Whiteley wrote]
> All,
>
> I need to limit the size of a log file I'm creating. At the moment, I'm just
> appending to it and it's going >100MB which is a bit excessive.
>
> I'd like the file to 'roll' so the first entries get pushed out as the later
> entries come in.
>
> Are there any pre-written examples of this, or is there a simple way to do
> it please ?
There are a few ways you could do this. You could os.stat the log file's
size every once in a while (one every write? though that might be slow)
and if the file passes a threshold size you could:
- close the file handle
- os.rename(<logfile>, <logfile>+<timestamp>)
- open(<logfile>)
Or you could roll over the file once per day (or per hour, etc).
I don't know of any pre-written examples of doing this although you
might want to ask on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cheers,
Trent
p.s. There is a current proposal to add a standard logging module to
Python 2.3 which will very likely provide a standard way of doing this
for you. http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0282.html
--
Trent Mick
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