adding fake-logs script

fake-logs

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+"""
+Randomly writes from a set of messages simulating logging.
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import logging
+import random
+import time
+
+
+
+def parse_args():
+    argp = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    argp.add_argument('file', help="Full path for log file")
+    argp.add_argument('-d', '--delay', type=int, default=5, help="Number to delay log entries (1/n)")
+
+    return argp.parse_args()
+
+
+def random_message(log_level):
+    debug_messages = [
+            "Values = [10, 20, 33]",
+            "Cake ratio = 3.14",
+            "Setting flat mode",
+            "Back to normal mode",
+            "Voltage: 1.21 Gigawatts",
+            "Speed: 88 mph",
+            "Temperature: 32.4C"
+    ]
+
+    info_messages = [
+            "My cat is blue",
+            "All your base are belong to us",
+            "I like turtles",
+            "Chocolate rain...",
+            "I hate prunes",
+            "The cake is a lie",
+            "I'm giving her all she's got!"
+    ]
+
+    warning_messages = [
+            "Numbers reaching critical levels",
+            "Magnetic constrictors around the anti-matter containment fields are failing",
+            "Approaching thermal thresholds",
+            "Searching is taking too long",
+            "There are monkeyboys in the facility",
+            "Structural integrity approaching tolerance",
+            "Process taking too long"
+    ]
+
+    error_messages = [
+            "Unable to process request",
+            "Connection lost with host",
+            "Buffer overflow",
+            "Warp engines are offline",
+            "No more coffee",
+            "Server not responding",
+            "Cannot divide by zero"
+    ]
+
+    message_level = [
+            debug_messages,
+            info_messages,
+            warning_messages,
+            error_messages
+    ]
+
+    which_message = random.randint(0, 6)
+
+    return message_level[log_level - 1][which_message]
+
+
+def main():
+    args = parse_args()
+
+    _LEVEL = logging.NOTSET
+    _FORMAT = logging.Formatter("%(asctime)-15s [%(levelname)-8s] : %(lineno)d : %(name)s.%(funcName)s : %(message)s")
+
+    _file_handler = logging.FileHandler(args.file, mode='a')
+    _file_handler.setFormatter(_FORMAT)
+    _file_handler.setLevel(_LEVEL)
+
+    log = logging.Logger('fake-logs')
+    log.addHandler(_file_handler)
+
+    try:
+        while True:
+            sleep_time = random.random() * float(f"0.{args.delay}")
+            logging_level = random.randint(0, 40) % 4
+
+            log.log(logging_level * 10, random_message(logging_level))
+
+            time.sleep(sleep_time)
+
+    except KeyboardInterrupt:
+        time.sleep(0.25)
+        log.error(random_message(4))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
+