> This can already be done from the command line through --log=LEVEL, which
sets the logging.loglevel attribute. In the how-to section of the docs,
this is demonstrated in the following example:
Note: "loglevel" is an arbitrary name, but this can be implemented
trivially with something like argparse to check for a --log argument.
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 9:19 PM Kyle Stanley <aeros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Setting PYTHONLOGGING to any log level or level name will initialize
> logging.basicConfig() with that appropriate level.
>
> This can already be done from the command line through --log=LEVEL, which
> sets the logging.loglevel attribute. In the how-to section of the docs,
> this is demonstrated in the following example:
>
> # assuming loglevel is bound to the string value obtained from the# command
> line argument. Convert to upper case to allow the user to# specify
> --log=DEBUG or --log=debugnumeric_level = getattr(logging, loglevel.upper(),
> None)if not isinstance(numeric_level, int):
> raise ValueError('Invalid log level: %s' %
> loglevel)logging.basicConfig(level=numeric_level, ...)
>
> (https://docs.python.org/3/howto/logging.html#logging-to-a-file)
>
> Is there a practical reason why the above doesn't work for you? Otherwise, I
> see no reason to add a new environment variable that effectively does the
> same thing.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 8:16 PM Bar Harel <bzvi7...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Another idea I've had that may be of use:
>>
>> PYTHONLOGGING environment variable.
>>
>> Setting PYTHONLOGGING to any log level or level name will initialize
>> logging.basicConfig() with that appropriate level.
>>
>> Another option would be that -x dev or a different -x logging will
>> initialize basic config.
>>
>> Will be useful mostly for debugging purposes instead of temporarily
>> modifying the code.
>>
>> Kinda surprised it doesn't exist tbh.
>>
>> Bar Harel
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