From 44952bb3f92bbf459ff07c9d580ac260058ccc98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Laurent Monin <zas@norz.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 21:59:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add a function to format a log line in human-readable form

---
 picard/log.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/picard/log.py b/picard/log.py
index fe999f3de..0a6129d39 100644
--- a/picard/log.py
+++ b/picard/log.py
@@ -100,6 +100,11 @@ _log_prefixes = {
     LOG_DEBUG: 'D',
 }
 
+def formatted_log_line(level, time, message, append="", timefmt='hh:mm:ss'):
+    return "%s: %s %s%s" % (_log_prefixes[level],
+                            time.toString(timefmt),
+                            message,
+                            append)
 
 def _stderr_receiver(level, time, msg):
     try: