Confused About Python Loggin

[Vinay Sajip]

On Jul 31, 2:04 pm, Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmic... at sequans.com>
wrote:
> Jannik Sundø wrote:
> > Hi all. I think I fixed this problem by setting fileLogger.propagate =
> > 0. Otherwise it will propagate up to the root logger, which outputs to
> > stdout, as far as I can understand.
>
> > On 31 Jul 2009, at 01:17, Jannik Sundø wrote:
>
> >> Dear all, I am quite confused about the Pythonlogging. I have read
> >> and re-read the Python documentation for the Pythonloggingmodule
> >> and googled, but to no avail. I simply want one logger to log to a
> >> file and another logger to log to the console. Neither should log the
> >> other's messages. The code below causes fileLogger to log to BOTH a
> >> file and the console, how come? It seems to me that a call such as
> >> "consoleHandler =logging.StreamHandler()" affects other loggers,
> >> which I do not want. Also, if I do not do
> >>logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO) in one of the classes of my
> >> application, theloggingdoes not work. Any ideas how come?
>
> >> Thanks a lot for any help! :)
>
> >> fileHandler =logging.FileHandler('../../logs/log.txt')
> >> fileLogger =logging.getLogger('TESTHARNESSFILE')
> >> fileLogger.addHandler(fileHandler)
> >> fileLogger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
> >> consoleHandler =logging.StreamHandler()
> >> logger =logging.getLogger('TESTHARNESS')
> >> logger.addHandler(consoleHandler)
> >> logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
>
> > --http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>
> Please do not top post :o)
>
> Are sure you have used the code provided above ?
> Loggers only propagate events to its parent.
>
> fileLogger =logging.getLogger('TESTHARNESSFILE"
> logger =logging.getLogger('TESTHARNESS')
> Those one have no parent relationship.
>
> However these one have parent relationship:
> fileLogger =logging.getLogger('TESTHARNESS.FILE") # note the dotted name
> logger =logging.getLogger('TESTHARNESS')
>
> Or maybe you have added a handler to the root logger...
>
> Using the propagate attribute is correct only between 2 loggers that are
> meant to be parents.
>
> JM

What you say is true, Jean-Michel, but the OP might be meaning the
parent-child relationship both his loggers have with the mother of all
loggers - the root logger ;-)

Regards,

Vinay Sajip