I made big use of the python logging module in my Google I/O talk 2
months ago, but you'd never know it from the talk. I created a python
logging module around the boto library that periodically writes to
cloud store. And you can also register a logger to log locally with
log rotation, etc.
https://github.com/gmr/pycon2013-logging
https://github.com/gmr/pycon2013-logging