Python’s logging module isn’t the only way to create logs. There are several third-party packages you can use, too. One of the most popular is Loguru. Loguru intends to remove all the boilerplate you get with the Python logging API. You will find that Loguru greatly simplifies creating logs in Python. This chapter has the following sections: Installation […]
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My latest Python book campaign is ending in less than a week. This book is about Python’s logging module. I also include two chapters that discuss structlog and loguru. Support on Kickstarter Why Back A Kickstarter? The reason to back the Kickstarter is that I have exclusive perks there that you cannot get outside of
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What does every new developer do when they are first learning to program? They print out strings to their terminal. It’s how we learn! But printing out to the terminal isn’t what you do with most professional applications. Support on Kickstarter In those cases, you log into files. Sometimes, you log into multiple locations at
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In this screencast, you will learn the basics of using Python’s logging module. Check out the book this video is based on for free online: http://python101.pythonlibrary.org/
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The other day, I decided I wanted to create a decorator to catch exceptions and log them. I found a rather complex example on Github that I used for some ideas on how to approach this task and came up with the following: # exception_decor.py import functools import logging def create_logger(): “”” Creates a logging
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I was looking through some of my old code and noticed this old script where I was creating a log of all running processes every 5 minutes. I believe I originally wrote the code to help me diagnose rogue processes that were eating memory or pegging the CPU. I was using the psutil project to
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Today I was reading the wxPython Google group / mailing list and there was someone asking about how to make Python’s logging module write its output to file and to a TextCtrl. It turns out that you need to create a custom logging handler to do it. At first, I tried just using a normal
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Today I decided to figure out how to make Python log to a file and the console simultaneously. Most of the time, I just want to log to a file, but occasionally I want to be able to see stuff on the console too to help with debugging. I found this ancient example in the
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Some people complained about my last logging article, wondering if it was even necessary since the docs and Doug Hellman have already written on the topic. I sometimes wonder why I write on these topics too, but usually when I do, I get lots of readers. In this case, I’ve gotten almost 10,000 hits just
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Python provides a very powerful logging library in its standard library. A lot of programmers use print statements for debugging (myself included), but you can also use logging to do this. It’s actually cleaner to use logging as you won’t have to go through all your code to remove the print statements. In this tutorial
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