Does a package exist to use icecream with logging?

[GeorgePearse]

I love icecream, but want to leave it in useful positions in my code for debugging, for code that goes into production.

I'd want to use it with the logging module (and prevent those statements from outputting content by setting the logging level).

[Dave-DigiMim]

So how about a debug=True prints message and debug=False does not?

[ranelpadon]

@GeorgePearse I use ic with the logging module like this:

foo = 'bar'
logger.debug(ic.format(foo))

since ic.format() will pass the string output to the logger instead of printing it.

So, this could be easily controlled by the log level.

[emcd]

As mentioned in the linked issue (#207), I recently published a package called icecream-truck (Github, PyPI). This includes a "recipe" for integrating icecream with logging. (Mentioning here too in case someone lands here rather than the newer thread.)

Quick example:

import logging

import ictruck.recipes.logging as ictruckl

aliases = {
    'icd': 'debug', 'ici': 'info', 'icw': 'warning',
    'ice': 'error', 'icc': 'critical' }
ictruckl.install( additional_aliases = aliases )

logging.basicConfig( level = logging.DEBUG )

icd( aliases )
ici( "some info" )
icw( "watch out" )
ice( "bad thing" )
icc( "I give up" )

produces:

DEBUG:__main__:ic| aliases: {'icc': 'critical',
              'icd': 'debug',
              'ice': 'error',
              'ici': 'info',
              'icw': 'warning'}
INFO:__main__:ic| 'some info'
WARNING:__main__:ic| 'watch out'
ERROR:__main__:ic| 'bad thing'
CRITICAL:__main__:ic| 'I give up'

Maybe this wrapper around icecream will be useful to people, while allowing icecream to maintain its purity and simplicity.

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I love icecream, but want to leave it in useful positions in my code for debugging, for code that goes into production.

This was one of the motivations for the development of icecream-truck. It has the concept of "active flavors" and "trace levels" that let you control which icecream.IceCreamDebugger instances produce output in production. (All flavors are disabled by default.)