Python, want logging with log rotation and compression

Question

Can anyone suggest a way in python to do logging with:

• log rotation every day
• compression of logs when they\'re rotated
• optional - delete old

Answer 1

The other way to compress logfile during rotate (new in python 3.3) is using BaseRotatingHandler (and all inherited) class attribute rotator for example:

import gzip
import os
import logging
import logging.handlers

class GZipRotator:
    def __call__(self, source, dest):
        os.rename(source, dest)
        f_in = open(dest, 'rb')
        f_out = gzip.open("%s.gz" % dest, 'wb')
        f_out.writelines(f_in)
        f_out.close()
        f_in.close()
        os.remove(dest)

logformatter = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s;%(levelname)s;%(message)s')
log = logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler('debug.log', 'midnight', 1, backupCount=5)
log.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
log.setFormatter(logformatter)
log.rotator = GZipRotator()

logger = logging.getLogger('main')
logger.addHandler(log)    
logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

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