Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

The BaseDaemon ABC

The implementation of BaseDaemon starts, unsurprisingly, with a standard ABC definition, and some class-level attributes/constants, as follows:

class BaseDaemon(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
"""Provides baseline functionality, interface requirements, and type-identity for objects that can act as a daemon/service managed by facilities in the local OS 
(like systemd) or by third-party service-configurators (like NSSM)
"""
    ###################################
    #   Class attributes/constants    #
    ###################################

    _handler_classes = {}
    _handler_keys = []

Since logging is a critical aspect of any service, making sure that some logging parameters are always available is a good idea. That starts with setting up a class-level ...