From eb1a296287df17af8cfba6cbe451bda07d9c23f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pac23 <manasmangaonkar@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 29 2019 15:39:36 +0000
Subject: add logger class


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diff --git a/logger.py b/logger.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5b1afe7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/logger.py
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+import sys
+import traceback
+import logging
+
+def setup_logging_to_file(filename):
+    logging.basicConfig( filename=filename,
+                         filemode='a',
+                         level=logging.DEBUG,
+                         format= '%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s',
+                       )
+
+def extract_function_name():
+    """Extracts failing function name from Traceback
+    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2380073/\
+    how-to-identify-what-function-call-raise-an-exception-in-python
+    """
+    tb = sys.exc_info()[-1]
+    stk = traceback.extract_tb(tb, 1)
+    fname = stk[0][3]
+    return fname
+
+def log_exception(e):
+    logging.error(
+    "Function {function_name} raised {exception_class} ({exception_docstring}): {exception_message}".format(
+    function_name = extract_function_name(), #this is optional
+    exception_class = e.__class__,
+    exception_docstring = e.__doc__,
+    exception_message = e.message))