Add to system log : syslog « Buildin Module « Python Tutorial

1. Python Tutorial
2. Buildin Module
3. syslog

import syslog, sys, StringIO, traceback, os

def logexception(includetraceback = 0):
    exctype, exception, exctraceback = sys.exc_info()
    excclass = str(exception.__class__)
    message = str(exception)

    if not includetraceback:
        syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_ERR, "%s: %s" % (excclass, message))
    else:
        excfd = StringIO.StringIO()
        traceback.print_exception(exctype, exception, exctraceback, None,
                                  excfd)
        for line in excfd.getvalue().split("\n"):
            syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_ERR, line)

def initsyslog():
    syslog.openlog("%s[%d]" % (os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]), os.getpid()),0, syslog.LOG_DAEMON)
    syslog.syslog("Started.")

initsyslog()
logexception(0)
logexception(1)
syslog.syslog("done")