Django's management command base that logs errors

logging_base_command.py

from __future__ import with_statement

import sys

import django
from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand
from django.utils.log import getLogger

class LoggingBaseCommand(BaseCommand):
    # A subclass of BaseCommand that logs errors to django.commands

    def __init__(self):
        super(LoggingBaseCommand, self).__init__()
        self._logger = getLogger('django.commands')

    def run_from_argv(self, argv):
        try:
            super(LoggingBaseCommand, self).run_from_argv(argv)
        except Exception, e:
            self._logger.error(e,
                exc_info=sys.exc_info(),
                extra={
                    'status_code': 500,
                }
            )
            raise