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# PyKota
#
# PyKota : Print Quotas for CUPS
#
# (c) 2003 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
# You're welcome to redistribute this software under the
# terms of the GNU General Public Licence version 2.0
# or, at your option, any higher version.
#
# You can read the complete GNU GPL in the file COPYING
# which should come along with this software, or visit
# the Free Software Foundation's WEB site http://www.fsf.org
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# $Id$
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# $Log$
# 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
#
#
#

import sys

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(config) :
    """Returns the appropriate logger subsystem object."""
    backend = 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")()