Getting rid of Django IOErrors

Question

I\'m running a Django site (via Apache/mod_python) and I use Django\'s facilities to inform me and other developers about internal server errors. Sometimes errors like those

Answer 1

Extending the solution by @dlowe for Django 1.3, we can write the full working example as:

settings.py

LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
    'filters': {
        'supress_unreadable_post': {
            '()': 'common.logging.SuppressUnreadablePost',
        }
    },
    'handlers': {
        'mail_admins': {
            'level': 'ERROR',
            'class': 'django.utils.log.AdminEmailHandler',
            'filters': ['supress_unreadable_post'],
        }
    },
    'loggers': {
        'django.request': {
            'handlers': ['mail_admins'],
            'level': 'ERROR',
            'propagate': True,
        },
    }
}

common/logging.py

import sys, traceback

class SuppressUnreadablePost(object):
    def filter(self, record):
        _, exception, tb = sys.exc_info()
        if isinstance(exception, IOError):
            for _, _, function, _ in traceback.extract_tb(tb):
                if function == '_get_raw_post_data':
                    return False
        return True