XMLLayout Formats Python log messages as log4j XMLLayout XML XMLLayout provides a Python logging Formatter that formats log messages as XML, according to `log4j's XMLLayout specification <http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/api/org/apache/log4j/xml/XMLLayout.html>`_. XMLLayout formatted log messages can be viewed and filtered within the `Chainsaw <http://logging.apache.org/log4j/docs/chainsaw.html>`_ application (see the example section below), part of the Java based log4j project. This package also includes a RawSocketHandler -- like logging.handler.SocketHandler, but sends the raw log message over the socket instead of a pickled version. RawSocketHandler can be configured to send log messages to Chainsaw directly over a socket. For example: to forward log messages to Chainsaw, if it were listening on localhost port 4448:: import logging import xmllayout handler = xmllayout.RawSocketHandler('localhost', 4448) handler.setFormatter(xmllayout.XMLLayout()) logging.root.addHandler(handler) Philip Jenvey c1f5a3d71ae19457c6cb53c5e7c0f5b4a4a8c388 0.3