Hi This is a beginner question. Thanks for the hand.
I've been asked to maintain some poorly constructed python code. Logging is weak. Getting it to work with python logging programmatically was easy. However, I'd like to refactor all the logging code into configuration since I see the need for other handlers in the future (syslog and possibly email). For now I just want to get console and log file working, but I'm having problems with the log file. I'm trying some test code. Here's my test script (logging_example.py): import logging import logging.config def main(): logging.config.fileConfig("logging.conf") logging.debug("debug check") logging.info("info check") logging.warn("warn check") logging.error("err check") logging.critical("crit check") if __name__ == "__main__": main() Here's my config (logging.conf): [loggers] keys=root,file [handlers] keys=console,file [formatters] keys=simple,detailed [logger_root] level=NOTSET handlers=console [logger_file] level=DEBUG handlers=file qualname=mylogger [formatter_simple] class=logging.Formatter format=%(asctime)s - %(name)s [%(levelname)s] - %(message)s [formatter_detailed] class=logging.Formatter format=%(asctime)s - %(name)s [%(levelname)s] - %(message)s [handler_console] class=logging.StreamHandler formatter=simple args=(sys.stdout,) [handler_file] class=FileHandler level=DEBUG formatter=detailed args=('logging_example.log', 'w') Output: $ python logging_example.py 2011-04-29 17:07:01,923 - root [DEBUG] - debug check 2011-04-29 17:07:01,986 - root [INFO] - info check 2011-04-29 17:07:01,986 - root [WARNING] - warn check 2011-04-29 17:07:01,986 - root [ERROR] - err check 2011-04-29 17:07:02,000 - root [CRITICAL] - crit check The logging_example.log is created, but no entries are written to it. Based on this configuration I'd expect all the logging entries to be written to the file as well. Any ideas where I'm going awry? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list