Creating logged functions using decorators

[Nathan Harmston]

Hi,

I m thinking about writing some code which logs the input and output
of a function/script and stores it in a database using sqlalchemy
(although I havent started on this yet). I want to do this via a
decorator ( I think this is the best way ).

def log(fn):
def newfn(*args):
print datetime.date.today()
print __file__
print fn.__name__
print args
return fn(*args)
return newfn

@log
def doAnalysis(a, b):
print a, b
return a + b

doAnalysis(3, 7)

I can access the arguments passed to the "logged" function, but is
there anyway I can capture the output of the function i.e. 10.

Many Thanks in advance,

Nathan

[Paul McGuire]

On Jul 7, 1:47 pm, "Nathan Harmston" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

Hi,

I m thinking about writing some code which logs the input and output
of a function/script and stores it in a database using sqlalchemy
(although I havent started on this yet). I want to do this via a
decorator ( I think this is the best way ).

def log(fn):
def newfn(*args):
print datetime.date.today()
print __file__
print fn.__name__
print args
return fn(*args)
return newfn

@log
def doAnalysis(a, b):
print a, b
return a + b

doAnalysis(3, 7)

I can access the arguments passed to the "logged" function, but is
there anyway I can capture the output of the function i.e. 10.

Many Thanks in advance,

Nathan

Yes. Capture the output of the function to a variable and log it
before you return it.

def log(fn):
def newfn(*args):
print datetime.date.today()
print __file__
print fn.__name__
print args
returnValue = fn(*args)
print returnValue
return
return newfn

Here's another idea: wrap the call to fn inside a try/except block, so
that if the function raises an exception, you can log it and then
reraise it.

-- Paul

[Carsten Haese]

On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 11:59 -0700, Paul McGuire wrote:

On Jul 7, 1:47 pm, "Nathan Harmston" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

Hi,

I m thinking about writing some code which logs the input and output
of a function/script and stores it in a database using sqlalchemy
(although I havent started on this yet). I want to do this via a
decorator ( I think this is the best way ).
[...]
I can access the arguments passed to the "logged" function, but is
there anyway I can capture the output of the function i.e. 10.

Many Thanks in advance,

Nathan

Yes. Capture the output of the function to a variable and log it
before you return it.

def log(fn):
def newfn(*args):
print datetime.date.today()
print __file__
print fn.__name__
print args
returnValue = fn(*args)
print returnValue
return

What Paul means here is, of course, "return returnValue", not a bare
return.

--
Carsten Haese
http://informixdb.sourceforge.net