# Logging Cookbook — How to uniformly handle newlines in logging output

> Usually, messages that are logged (say to console or file) consist of a single line of text.

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Usually, messages that are logged (say to console or file) consist of a single line of text. However, sometimes there is a need to handle messages with multiple lines - whether because a logging format string contains newlines, or logged data contains newlines. If you want to handle such messages uniformly, so that each line in the logged message appears uniformly formatted as if it was logged separately, you can do this using a handler mixin, as in the following snippet

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```python
# Assume this is in a module mymixins.py
import copy

class MultilineMixin:
def emit(self, record):
s = record.getMessage()
if '\n' not in s:
super().emit(record)
else:
lines = s.splitlines()
rec = copy.copy(record)
rec.args = None
for line in lines:
rec.msg = line
super().emit(rec)
```

You can use the mixin as in the following script

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```python
import logging

from mymixins import MultilineMixin

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

class StreamHandler(MultilineMixin, logging.StreamHandler):
pass

if __name__ == '__main__':
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG, format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)-9s %(message)s',
handlers = [StreamHandler()])
logger.debug('Single line')
logger.debug('Multiple lines:\nfool me once ...')
logger.debug('Another single line')
logger.debug('Multiple lines:\n%s', 'fool me ...\ncan\'t get fooled again')
```

The script, when run, prints something like

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```text
2025-07-02 13:54:47,234 DEBUG     Single line
2025-07-02 13:54:47,234 DEBUG     Multiple lines:
2025-07-02 13:54:47,234 DEBUG     fool me once ...
2025-07-02 13:54:47,234 DEBUG     Another single line
2025-07-02 13:54:47,234 DEBUG     Multiple lines:
2025-07-02 13:54:47,234 DEBUG     fool me ...
2025-07-02 13:54:47,234 DEBUG     can't get fooled again
```

If, on the other hand, you are concerned about log injection &lt; you can use a formatter which escapes newlines, as per the following example

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