Syslog multiple facilities using python

Question

I would like my python program to log to multiple facilities ( LOCALX ), where each facility entry would be for a particular condition. For example, all logging of network traffic between X and program go to LOCAL0 , and between Y and the program to LOCAL1 .

Anyways, I can do this quite easily with python's logging mechanism: I would import logging , and create a Sysloghandler for each facility and add it to one or more loggers.

But python also has a syslog module. I wish to use this module instead since almost all of the other python code I'm contributing to uses syslog . Is it possible and how?

The syslog documents suggest that this can't be done.

I am using python 2.7

thanks.

Answer 1

The syslog module documentation specifies that the facility can be set as an optional keyword argument to syslog.openlog([ident[, logoption[, facility]]]) :

The optional facility keyword argument (default is LOG_USER ) sets the default facility for messages which do not have a facility explicitly encoded.

You can also encode the facility in each message, as stated in the documentation of syslog.syslog(priority, message) :

Each message is tagged with a priority composed of a facility and a level. The optional priority argument, which defaults to LOG_INFO , determines the message priority. If the facility is not encoded in priority using logical-or ( LOG_INFO | LOG_USER ), the value given in the openlog() call is used.