Initial Creation from bot template.

src/meta/app.py

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+"""
+appname: str
+    The base identifer for this application.
+    This identifies which services the app offers.
+shardname: str
+    The specific name of the running application.
+    Only one process should be connecteded with a given appname.
+    For the bot apps, usually specifies the shard id and shard number.
+"""
+# TODO: Find a better schema for these. We use appname for shard_talk, do we need it for data?
+
+from . import sharding, conf
+from .logger import log_app
+from .args import args
+
+
+appname = conf.data['appid']
+appid = appname  # backwards compatibility
+
+
+def appname_from_shard(shardid):
+    appname = f"{conf.data['appid']}_{sharding.shard_count:02}_{shardid:02}"
+    return appname
+
+
+def shard_from_appname(appname: str):
+    return int(appname.rsplit('_', maxsplit=1)[-1])
+
+
+shardname = appname_from_shard(sharding.shard_number)
+
+log_app.set(shardname)