Stefan H. Holek wrote:

Try this:

from zLOG import LOG, INFO LOG('MyProduct', INFO, 'My message')

Zope must run in debug mode for messages to appear in the event log.

You can also import and use other severities. If I recall correctly everything non-negative will always be written to the stupid log file? (so INFO will always out put to SLF) """General logging facility This module attempts to provide a simple programming API for logging with a pluggable API for defining where log messages should go. Programmers call the LOG function to log information. The LOG function, in turn, calls the log_write method to actually write logging information somewhere. This module provides a very simple log_write implementation. It is intended that applications main programs will replace this method with a method more suited to their needs. The module provides a register_subsystem method that does nothing, but provides a hook that logging management systems could use to collect information about subsystems being used. The module defines several standard severities: TRACE=-300 -- Trace messages DEBUG=-200 -- Debugging messages BLATHER=-100 -- Somebody shut this app up. INFO=0 -- For things like startup and shutdown. PROBLEM=100 -- This isn't causing any immediate problems, but deserves attention. WARNING=100 -- A wishy-washy alias for PROBLEM. ERROR=200 -- This is going to have adverse effects. PANIC=300 -- We're dead! Also, looging facilities will normally ignore negative severities. To plug in a log handler, simply replace the log_write function with a callable object that takes 5 arguments: subsystem -- The subsystem generating the message (e.g. ZODB) severity -- The "severity" of the event. This may be an integer or a floating point number. Logging back ends may consider the int() of this valua to be significant. For example, a backend may consider any severity whos integer value is WARNING to be a warning. summary -- A short summary of the event detail -- A detailed description error -- A three-element tuple consisting of an error type, value, and traceback. If provided, then a summary of the error is added to the detail. The callable object can provide a reinitialize method that may be called with no arguments to reopen the log files (if any) as part of a log-rotation facility. There is a default stupid logging facility that: - swallows logging information by default, - outputs to sys.stderr if the environment variable STUPID_LOG_FILE is set to an empty string, and - outputs to file if the environment variable STUPID_LOG_FILE is set to a file name. - Ignores errors that have a severity < 0 by default. This can be overridden with the environment variable STUPID_LOG_SEVERITY """ def LOG(subsystem, severity, summary, detail='', error=None, reraise=None): """Log some information The required arguments are: subsystem -- The subsystem generating the message (e.g. ZODB) severity -- The "severity" of the event. This may be an integer or a floating point number. Logging back ends may consider the int() of this valua to be significant. For example, a backend may consider any severity whos integer value is WARNING to be a warning. summary -- A short summary of the event detail -- A detailed description error -- A three-element tuple consisting of an error type, value, and traceback. If provided, then a summary of the error is added to the detail. reraise -- If provided with a true value, then the error given by error is reraised. """ -- Johan Carlsson Tel: + 46 8 31 24 94 Colliberty Mob: + 46 70 558 25 24 Torsgatan 72 Email: johanc@easypublisher.com SE-113 37 STOCKHOLM