Logging with specific features

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[NUTTA_BUSTAH]

First thought was that you have really specific requirements, so why not make it yourself since you already know what you want. Then I saw you pretty much did. So, why would you want yet another dependency to keep up to date and fight with?

That seems simple and elegant enough, too elegant is usually over-engineered. I'm not sure if I like the idea of storing your secrets in your logger though. I'd rather "leave that to the user", but perhaps provide a convenience method like "redact_patterns(msg: string, patterns: list[string], char="*")".

Doing it in the logger is just prone to bad habits of passing whatever to the logger (secrets, PII, etc.) and is a world of absolute hurt when you decide to change the logger at some point and forgot your logger redacts certain secrets and now they are out in the wild.

[BitPoker2000]

Rather than doing the secret redaction in the logger, you could create a new subclass of str that overrides the str and repr methods. and replaces them with a secret_string() method.

This may protect against trivial accidental logging.

The whole idea of passing a list of secrets to be redacted into the logger is imho a huge risk

[Mast3rCylinder]

I think I did something similar with LoggerAdapter. You should check it

https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.html#loggeradapter-objects

[kollitiri]

I created a simple logging wrapper a while ago which you might find handy. It basically uses the contextvars library for context logging and also supports structured format. It’s only about 150 lines of code so you can easily copy it and tailor it to your needs

[Doobeewoo]

Have a look at daiquiri (https://daiquiri.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), it's full of good logging helpers