New submission from Raul Morales <raul...@gmail.com>: Sometimes log files grow very quickly and consume too much disk space (e.g. DEBUG), so compress old log files saves disk space without losing the information from log files.
I propose to add a "gzip" or "compress" argument to RotatingFileHandler and TimedRotatingFileHandler to select the number of old files you want to compress. For example, if you set the argument to 0 (default) no files are gzipped , but if you set it to 3 you get the following log files: app.log app.log.1 app.log.2 app.log.3.gz app.log.4.gz ... app.log.n.gz For TimedRotatingFileHandler it works similar, gzipping from the n-th newer log file to the oldest log file: app.log app.log.2011-12-01 app.log.2011-11-30 app.log.2011-11-29.gz app.log.2011-11-28.gz ... A possible patch is attached ---------- components: Library (Lib) files: log.patch keywords: patch messages: 148732 nosy: ramhux, vinay.sajip priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Gzip old log files in rotating handlers type: feature request versions: Python 3.3 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file23830/log.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13516> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
