On 10/23/2012 11:23 AM, David M Chess wrote: > We have a TimedRotatingFileHandler with when='midnight'
You give us no clue what's in this class, or how it comes up with the filenames used. > . > > This works great, splitting the log information across files by date, as > long as the process is actually up at midnight. > > But now the users have noticed that if the process isn't up at midnight, > they can end up with lines from two (or I guess potentially more) dates in > the same log file. > > Is there some way to fix this, either with cleverer arguments into the > TimedRotatingFileHandler, or by some plausible subclassing of it or its > superclass? Why not use the date itself to derive the filename? And check whether the date has changed since the last update, and if so, close and reopen. Midnight is irrelevant. > Or am I misinterpreting the symptoms somehow? > > Tx much! > DC > > -- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
