ASL – Apple System Log facility

This package implements bindings to the ASL library on macOS 10.4 or later. The ASL library is a low-level logging library, meant as a replacement for the syslog API.

The library supports Python 3.6 or later.

Note

The ASL library itself is deprecated on macOS 10.12 and is replaced by the os_log library.

Contents:

• asl — ASL library
  • ASL connection
  • ASL messages
  • Utility functions
  • Constants
• Examples
  • Basic logging
  • Logging with more control
  • Sending log messages to the default view of Console.app
  • Logging an auxiliary URL
  • Querying the ASL database
  • Integration with the logging package
• Module as a script
  • Usage
• Release history
  • asl 1.1
  • asl 1.0.2
  • asl 1.0
  • asl 0.9

Online Resources

• Sourcecode repository on GitHub
• The issue tracker

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page