Sending sysLog via Python

I had someone ask me the other day if we could ingest alarms into LogicMonitor from their app. For example, if the app had an exception raised, they'd like to send a message to LogicMonitor to open an alarm. The easiest way I could think of doing this was to have a standalone Python script that sends data via Syslog to LM. This is one way this could be done. I haven't tested this, but it's simple enough to see that it should work:

import logging
import logging.handlers
import sys
my_logger = logging.getLogger('MyLogger')
my_logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
destIpAddress = sys.argv[1]
destPort = sys.argv[2]
handler = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(address = (ipAddress,514))
my_logger.addHandler(handler)
my_logger.info(sys.argv[3:].join(" "))

You'd call it like this:
> send_syslog.py 192.168.25.64 514 My application had an error in the widget creator service.