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# PyKota
#
# PyKota : Print Quotas for CUPS and LPRng
#
# (c) 2003 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
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# Revision 1.8  2003/07/07 11:49:24  jalet
# Lots of small fixes with the help of PyChecker
#
# Revision 1.7  2003/06/10 16:37:54  jalet
# Deletion of the second user which is not needed anymore.
# Added a debug configuration field in /etc/pykota.conf
# All queries can now be sent to the logger in debug mode, this will
# greatly help improve performance when time for this will come.
#
# Revision 1.6  2003/04/23 22:13:57  jalet
# Preliminary support for LPRng added BUT STILL UNTESTED.
#
# Revision 1.5  2003/03/29 13:45:27  jalet
# GPL paragraphs were incorrectly (from memory) copied into the sources.
# Two README files were added.
# Upgrade script for PostgreSQL pre 1.01 schema was added.
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# Revision 1.4  2003/02/09 13:05:43  jalet
# Internationalization continues...
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# Revision 1.3  2003/02/05 22:10:29  jalet
# Typos
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# Revision 1.2  2003/02/05 22:02:22  jalet
# __import__ statement didn't work as expected
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# Revision 1.1  2003/02/05 21:28:17  jalet
# Initial import into CVS
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#
#

class PyKotaLoggingError(Exception):
    """An exception for logging related stuff."""
    def __init__(self, message = ""):
        self.message = message
        Exception.__init__(self, message)
    def __repr__(self):
        return self.message
    __str__ = __repr__

def openLogger(pykotatool) :
    """Returns the appropriate logger subsystem object."""
    backend = pykotatool.config.getLoggingBackend()
    try :
        if not backend.isalpha() :
            # don't trust user input
            raise ImportError
        exec "from pykota.loggers import %s as loggingbackend" % backend.lower()    
    except ImportError :
        raise PyKotaLoggingError, _("Unsupported logging subsystem %s") % backend
    else :    
        return getattr(loggingbackend, "Logger")()