Is there existing code to log-with-bells-on for runtime algorithm diagnostics?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 21/04/2015 21:22, Robert Kern wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Rob Clewley <rob.clewley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm in need of a system for logging the step-wise results and
>> diagnostic metadata about a python function implementation of an
>> algorithm that I'm developing. The specific algorithm is not of great
>> consequence except that it's for scientific computing and may produce
>> large (e.g., '00s or maybe '000s, but not "big data" scale) amounts of
>> intermediate numerical data that can be complex to understand when
>> debugging its progress.
>>
>> In fact, I'm trying to build a general purpose tool for exploring the
>> inner workings of numerical algorithms for teaching and learning
>> purposes, e.g. for graduate student training or for figuring out
>> parameter choices in difficult applications.
>
> The term you want to search for is "structured logging".
>
> http://www.structlog.org/en/stable/
> http://eliot.readthedocs.org/en/stable/
> https://twiggy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/logging.html#structured-logging
> http://netlogger.lbl.gov/
>
> --
> Robert Kern
>

Thanks for the term, which I've certainly never heard before, and the links.

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Mark Lawrence