def log(logger, messages, title=False, boxed=False, loglevel='info', silent=False):
"""
Print a message on stdout and log to file
:param logger: Logger object to use for the logging
:type logger: ovs.log.log_handler.LogHandler
:param messages: Messages to print and log
:type messages: str or list
:param title: If True some extra chars will be pre- and appended
:type title: bool
:param boxed: Use the Interactive boxed message print option
:type boxed: bool
:param loglevel: level to log on
:type loglevel: str
:param silent: If set to True, the messages will only be logged to file
:type silent: bool
:return: None
"""
if type(messages) in (str, basestring, unicode):
messages = [messages]
if silent is False:
if boxed is True:
print Interactive.boxed_message(lines=messages)
else:
for message in messages:
if title is True:
message = '\n+++ {0} +++\n'.format(message)
if loglevel in ['error', 'exception']:
message = 'ERROR: {0}'.format(message)
print message
for message in messages:
getattr(logger, loglevel)(message)
