How to add a custom loglevel to Python's logging facility

Question

I\'d like to have loglevel TRACE (5) for my application, as I don\'t think that debug() is sufficient. Additionally log(5, msg) isn\'t what I want.

Answer 1

I find it easier to create a new attribute for the logger object that passes the log() function. I think the logger module provides the addLevelName() and the log() for this very reason. Thus no subclasses or new method needed.

import logging

@property
def log(obj):
    logging.addLevelName(5, 'TRACE')
    myLogger = logging.getLogger(obj.__class__.__name__)
    setattr(myLogger, 'trace', lambda *args: myLogger.log(5, *args))
    return myLogger

now

mylogger.trace('This is a trace message')

should work as expected.