syslog.syslog()

syslog.syslog(message) syslog.syslog(priority, message)

Send the string message to the system logger. A trailing newline is added if necessary. Each message is tagged with a priority composed of a facility and a level. The optional priority argument, which defaults to LOG_INFO, determines the message priority. If the facility is not encoded in priority using logical-or (LOG_INFO | LOG_USER), the value given in the openlog() call is used.

If openlog() has not been called prior to the call to syslog(), openlog() will be called with no arguments.