Index: Modules/syslogmodule.c
===================================================================
--- Modules/syslogmodule.c	(revision 80459)
+++ Modules/syslogmodule.c	(working copy)
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@
 
 Revision history:
 
+2010/04/26 (Sean Reifschneider)
+  - Adding helpers for logging exceptions to syslog.
+
 2010/04/20 (Sean Reifschneider)
   - Use basename(sys.argv[0]) for the default "ident".
   - Arguments to openlog() are now keyword args and are all optional.
@@ -223,11 +226,85 @@
 	return PyInt_FromLong(mask);
 }
 
+static PyObject * 
+syslog_logexception(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
+{
+	PyObject *traceback, *result, *etype, *evalue, *etb, *line;
+	char *s, *eol;
+	int i;
+
+
+	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "OOO:logexception",
+			&etype, &evalue, &etb))
+		return(NULL);
+
+	if ((traceback = PyImport_ImportModule("traceback")) == NULL) {
+		return(NULL);
+	}
+
+	if ((result = PyObject_CallMethod(traceback, "format_exception",
+			"OOO", etype, evalue, etb)) == NULL) {
+		Py_DECREF(traceback);
+		return(NULL);
+	}
+
+	if (!PySequence_Check(result)) {
+		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
+				"Traceback format_exception() did not return a sequence");
+		Py_DECREF(result);
+		return(NULL);
+	}
+
+	for (i = 0; i < PySequence_Size(result); i++) {
+		if (!(line = PySequence_GetItem(result, i))) {
+			Py_DECREF(result);
+			return(NULL);
+		}
+
+		for (s = PyString_AsString(line); s && *s; s = eol) {
+			PyObject *message, *syslogargs;
+
+			eol = strchr(s, '\n');
+
+			syslogargs = PyTuple_New(1);
+			if (!syslogargs) {
+				Py_DECREF(line);
+				Py_DECREF(result);
+				return(NULL);
+			}
+
+			if (eol) {
+				message = PyString_FromStringAndSize(s, eol - s);
+				eol++;
+			} else {
+				message = PyString_FromString(s);
+			}
+			if (message == NULL) {
+				Py_DECREF(syslogargs);
+				Py_DECREF(line);
+				Py_DECREF(result);
+				return(NULL);
+			}
+
+			PyTuple_SET_ITEM(syslogargs, 0, message);
+			syslog_syslog(self, syslogargs);
+			Py_DECREF(syslogargs);
+			Py_DECREF(message);
+		}
+		Py_DECREF(line);
+	}
+	Py_DECREF(result);
+
+	Py_INCREF(Py_None);
+	return Py_None;
+}
+
 /* List of functions defined in the module */
 
 static PyMethodDef syslog_methods[] = {
 	{"openlog",	(PyCFunction) syslog_openlog,		METH_VARARGS | METH_KEYWORDS},
 	{"closelog",	syslog_closelog,	METH_NOARGS},
+	{"logexception",syslog_logexception,	METH_VARARGS},
 	{"syslog",	syslog_syslog,		METH_VARARGS},
 	{"setlogmask",	syslog_setlogmask,	METH_VARARGS},
 	{"LOG_MASK",	syslog_log_mask,	METH_VARARGS},