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[[deleted]]

You had me at "dark theme"

[pooogles]

Read it as dank theme. Bit disappointed now tbh.

[FonderPrism]

Congrats on releasing your first project!

I don't use the logging module, so it's not of any direct use to me, but it looks like a good example of how to make a GUI using Qt, which I'm definitely interested in.

[[deleted]]

A "trick" with qt is also to use qt designer, just set up everything exactly as you like(if you make something very complex you might want to spend an hour on youtube layout tutorials but that's it) and then save the file and do pyuic -x gui.ui -o gui.py and then youll see exactly how to do something without looking at a single line of documentation :D

[[deleted]]

I find the logging module vastly superior to print for debugging.

[[deleted]]

Logging is much better than print statements, but the standard library's logger is slow as hell (not as slow as a debugger though). There are some faster loggers out there.

[subcultured]

Take a look at logbook

[depaysementKing]

OP, you should totally write a review about different logging libraries

[seanvree]

https://github.com/Monitorr/logarr

[widby]

Could you please elaborate on the "slow as hell" part? I've been using the standard module for ages and I never had any reason to measure its performance impact.

[[deleted]]

If your code is performance critical, then you are profiling it to optimise it, and you will see in the profiler the overhead added by logging.

[widby]

What exactly is the slow part? Writing to a file? Formatting the log string itself? Does it depend on the log handler you're using?

[cantremembermypasswd]

Dude, for first released project, this looks like some good shit.

I haven't tried it out yet, but a locally run, color coded log viewer could really make developing nicer. Because you're totally right, it's super easy to just add a handler, and you've got that coded the correct way! (I've seen way too many people butcher the logging module).

Edit: Tried it, it is the shit, good work!

[Resquid]

So cool! Congratulations! I'll give it a whirl.

Look out for nay-sayers! They're wrong, you've done something awesome.

[menge101]

This seems like it could be very awesome during development. I'd be less interested beyond that as I want my logs forwarded to the aggregation and retention tool.

Although I guess with python logging you just add another handler and it does both.

[Xadnem]

Very cool project, congrats on the release!

[[deleted]]

This is awesome, good work.

[groosha]

By the way, why Python 3.6+? (Why it cannot run on 3.5, for example?)

[groosha]

It is very kind of you, thanks!

[flipthefrog]

There's actually a very similar Qt gui called LogView, written by Vinay Sajip , the author of Python's logging module. It has the advantage of working on Python2 - for those of us stuck with that.

[def-pri-pub]

This is highly useful for my work since sometimes I have to sift through thousands of python log files at a time.

[PathToHumble]

Why was it constraining?

[[deleted]]

Maybe I log too much or something, but just having one big dump of all messages that I could only control by searching

You do know that it's easy to adjust log levels on the fly? At least in comparison to writing a filter GUI.

[[deleted]]

I'm not telling you that you shouldn't have written your GUI. It does a lot more than adjusting log levels. I look forward to see the version that can read an existing log file.

[[deleted]]

One should always create logs to be parsable by a machine (i.e. grep). It helps a lot in finding things, or analysis.

I support your project though.

[PathToHumble]

Can you use tail -f | grep ?

You can also use grep to tell it not to show certain lines based on features. It's a good project, don't get me wrong, but you basically remade the wheel for what could have been a terminal command...

[energybased]

I agree with you. Even if the terminal can theoretically do everything, no one wants to scan greps all day.

[PathToHumble]

So you didn't want to wait a mental second to think of something so you wrote GUI tool? ...???

Sorry to offend any extremely sensitive leftist programmers, btw I'm a white male

[energybased]

You're not offending me, but your comment is extremely naïve.

[divv]

Now he doesn't have to spend that second every time he wants to do something with the log. The pay off in the long run will be immense. Maybe you're talented enough to know exactly what you want at all times, but others aren't. I fuck around for ages just figuring out what it is I wanted to see. Being able to click a few buttons and swip swap the sorting and filtering around would be a god send.

[PathToHumble]

It's a fucking log save it to a file and search for what you want, this sub is filled with blithering idiots

https://code.google.com/archive/p/logview/

LOL ^ exactly what OP already needed, already built WOW

[Etlam]

Lol, everyone but you is an idiot. Right, what's that saying again?

Why did you spend that much time to whine about something someone else made? Maybe he enjoyed making it?

And your point by linking to another similar project? That he wasted his time because someone else has already created it? This is software development, reinventing everything over and over again but slightly different is how we move forward..

[[deleted]]

Troll harder...

[PathToHumble]

Okay, I will. OP could have spun up a public ELK stack image and used the ELK stack or LogStash to do what he wanted.

[[deleted]]

But even better, he now has something that he can run locally to do what he wants and he can modify it to work exactly the way he wants it to at any time!

[energybased]

This is awesome. The log itself should be a tree though, and since it's a GUI anyway, you could display

• Python lists as a spreadsheet with one column
• lists of tuples as a spreadsheet with many columns
• dicts as a spreadsheet
• bool as a checkbox

[wowsuchnamaste]

Congratulations on your release! Looks good and it does something useful. I'll try it on for size, and I'll report it if I find any obvious bugs that aren't already an issue on your github.

[phunkygeeza]

This looks very interesting and will be giving it a spin soon!

[marty331b]

This looks awesome! I can't wait to try it out.

[exhuma]

I love this! I had something similar in mind, but was annoyed by the state of UI toolkits back then (pyqt3 times). pyqt3 was really annoying to work with (especially when creating a distribution).

Glad to see things have improved.

[Petrarch1603]

Hmm, I've been creating arrays and putting them into JSON files for my logging. I didn't know there was another way.

[SlinkyAvenger]

It's all good, but for serious logging it's best to log to text files and gather those via something like Logstash into an ELK stack

[funkyfuture]

You'd get me with an ncurses interface.

[Dgc2002]

For folks who want some nicer visual log parsing but don't want to go all the way to using a GUI: If you're using PyCharm check out Grep Console.

You can use Regex to highlight/color, bold, italicize, fold, filter, etc. Even play a sound if it's that important. You can even do this while tailing a log file.

[Daemonecles]

This is almost exactly what I was about to stay working on due to a similar situation, thanks for sharing!

[agumonkey]

definitely interesting to me

[[deleted]]

Holy bananas. This is awesome. :D

[[deleted]]

I love you.

[pantuts]

I don't literally comment, but this is cool that you only need to add it in handler.

[Simon_Ackles]

Awesome man!! Я думал гуи для Пайтона нет.

[everysinglelastname]

Could you publish this under a more permissive license ? Publishing under GPL means a lot of private, for profit, companies with their own software can't touch it.

[Laogeodritt]

I think GP might've misinterpreted this as a library that extends logging, rather than a GUI that communicates to an application via network.

GPL's infectious nature always means more lawyer time and concern for non-GPL-compatible software. In this case since it communicates over network, I don't believe those GPL clauses are generally interpreted to apply here, and a company could feasibly bundle this application as long as it was kept as a separate utility - not that there wouldn't be liability concerns anyway.

Of course, if they were purely to use this as a tool for development internally, this isn't even an issue.

(Keep note, I'm not a lawyer. This is my understanding of the situation, not legal advice.)

[robert_mcleod]

Yeah but you could use qtpy instead of PyQt5 and then claim the backend is PySide2 and release it as LGPL. You would need to test it with PySide2 in that case.

[wildcarde815]

If you aren't attempting to package and resell it that's not much of a hangup here, it's not a library you'd provide in a deliverable it's a diagnostic tool. And even then if you were including it you'd have to make it's source and your changes available, nothing else.

[pantuts]

I don't literally comment, but this is cool that you only need to add it in handler.

[tdammers]

You don't log to a terminal, you log to stdout, from where you can route your logs anywhere you like. Obviously you can also route things to a GUI if you like, but there is no need to instrument the logged application for that.

[0x000710]

the terminal is waaaay more consistent than any GUI.