selwin · December 12, 2012 02:00 · Dec 12, 2012
diff --git a/logging_base_command.py b/logging_base_command.py
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+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