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How to log activity in Mac OS X

This is a self-reminder post.

Mac OS X doesn’t log activity unless it’s level LOG_ALERT or higher, here’s the code:

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import syslog
# Define identifier
syslog.openlog("Python")
# Record a message
syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_ALERT, "Example message")