Short, sweet, to-the-point logging in a Python application.

killer_logging.py

import logging
import logging.handlers

"""
Call me once at initialization of your application.

@param  level   A level from the logging package. You can also 
                pass in common levels as strings, I believe ('INFO', 'DEBUG', etc)
"""
def setup_logging(level):
    l = logging.getLogger('my_application')
    syslog = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(
        address=SYSLOG_LOCATION, 
        facility=logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.LOG_DAEMON
        )
    syslog.formatter = logging.Formatter(
        fmt='{0}: [%(name)s|%(lineno)d]: %(message)s'.format('MyApplication')
        )
    l.addHandler(syslog)
    

"""
Call me at the top of your module and set to a module-level attribute. 
Use throughout the module where needed.

@param  name    A name to give the logger. Typically it's __name__ from 
                the calling module, but you can use anything.
"""
def get_logger(name=None):
    # put anything you want.
    full_name = "{0}.{1}".format('my_application', name or 'unknown_module')
    return logging.getLogger(full_name)
    
# End

Ideally, values like 'my_application' and 'MyApplication' would be configured in some configuration-declaring module, and you'd be passing them by reference into where necessary, not actually typing them out.