#24361: The doc is not right w.r.t. LOGGING overwriting.
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Reporter: Tuttle | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: Documentation | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 1 | UI/UX: 0
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The https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/docs/topics/logging.txt
says
If the `disable_existing_loggers` key in the :setting:`LOGGING`
dictConfig is set to `True` (which is the default) the default
configuration is completely overridden.
That is **not right** and it is pretty painful to trace down that the
`django.request` and `django.security`, although disabled, don't propagate
to the root logger even when `disable_existing_loggers` in my LOGGING is
`True`. One would expect the disabling would allow the logger to propagate
again.
Many people apparently already ran into this.
There are Stack Overflow questions and blog posts about this topic. Best
of them I found is here: http://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2015/01/27
/Django-Logging-Configuration-logging_config-default-settings-logger/
It suggests the working way to put to `settings` to **really erase the
default logging**. I think it should definitely be stated in the doc.
{{{
LOGGING_CONFIG = None
LOGGING = {...} # whatever you want
import logging.config
logging.config.dictConfig(LOGGING)
}}}
The logging system is complex by itself, something it is not a pleasure to
work with for many. The reset path eliminating the confusion would be most
welcome.
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