Python comes with the logging package, which lets you stream logs to a variety of places including standard out, rotating log files, syslog, or a TCP or UDP socket.
There's even an SMTP backend. In the following example, the email_errors decorator will send an email every time an exception is happening in the decorated function. Note that the handler is doing a telnet session with the SMTP server to send the email, so if there's any issue during that session, you might get a second exception when the logger.exception() function is called:
import logging
from logging.handlers import SMTPHandler
host = "smtp.example.com", 25
handler = SMTPHandler(mailhost=host, fromaddr="[email protected]",
toaddrs=["[email protected]"],
subject="Service Exception")
logger = logging.getLogger('theapp')
logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
logger.addHandler(handler)
def email_errors(func):
def _email_errors...