Python Logging: Specifying converter attribute of a log formatter in config file

[bernhard.haslhofer at gmail.com]

I have the same problem and couldn't find a solution. It seems that converters can only be set programmatically?



On Thursday, August 30, 2012 6:38:27 AM UTC-4, Radha Krishna Srimanthula wrote:
> I'd like to have all timestamps in my log file to be UTC timestamp. When specified through code, this is done as follows:
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> myHandler = logging.FileHandler('mylogfile.log', 'a')
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> formatter = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s %(levelname)-8s %(name)-15s:%(lineno)4s: %(message)-80s')
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> formatter.converter = time.gmtime
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> myLogger = logging.getLogger('MyApp')
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> myLogger.addHandler(myHandler)
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> I'd like to move away from the above 'in-code' configuration to a config file based mechanism.
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> Here's the config file section for the formatter:
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> [handler_MyLogHandler]
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> args=("mylogfile.log", "a",)
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> class=FileHandler
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> level=DEBUG
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> formatter=simpleFormatter
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> Now, how do I specify the converter attribute (time.gmtime) in the above section?