On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 18:52 +0200, Torsten Bronger wrote:
> Hallöchen!
>
> Is there a portable and simply way to direct file-like IO to simply
> nothing? I try to implement some sort of NullLogging by saying
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> import logging
> if options.logging:
> logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG, filename=options.logfile,
> filemode="w",
> format='%(asctime)s %(name)s %(levelname)s
> %(message)s')
> else:
> # redirect logging to a memory buffer in order to simply ignore it.
> import StringIO
> logging.basicConfig(stream=StringIO.StringIO())
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> However, this consumes memory. Is there a better way?
This might work:
class LogSink(object):
def write(self, *args, **kwargs): pass
def flush(self, *args, **kwargs): pass
logging.basicConfig(stream=LogSink())
I haven't tested this thoroughly, so it's possible that there are more
methods that the stream is expected to implement.
HTH,
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