I have a code that work but do things that I don’t understand.
This code use logging python module. The problem is that when I run this script there is always (in additional of the normal Stream Log) a line on the console that I don’t want (the second line in STDOUT at the bottom of this post).
I don’t understand why this line exist and how solve this problem.
I think that problem is due to the usage of logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO) but I need to use it because if I don’t use it logger.info('This is a INFO-01') don’t work just the level WARNING, etc … I tried several things but that just produced errors and don’t find answer on Internet.
import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
c_handler = logging.StreamHandler()
f_handler = logging.FileHandler('file07.log')
c_handler.setLevel(logging.INFO)
f_handler.setLevel(logging.INFO)
c_format = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
f_format = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
c_handler.setFormatter(c_format)
f_handler.setFormatter(f_format)
logger.addHandler(c_handler)
logger.addHandler(f_handler)
logger.info('This is a INFO-01')
STDOUT:
2021-12-11 17:54:30,203 - INFO - This is a INFO-01 INFO:__main__:This is a INFO-01
If someone can help me, I will be really grateful. Cordially
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Answer
You guessed it right. Take a look at this image from the documentation.
By default the propagation is True. So your logger object has a parent logger named “root”.
basicConfig essentially does basic configuration for the logging system by creating a StreamHandler with a default Formatter and adding it to the root logger.
The ‘root’ is the parent of all loggers. So after your logger logger’s handlers process the message, it will get handed to the parent logger’s handlers, and because it has a handler now, it outputs that message for the second time with the default format.
You can remove that because you don’t need it. Don’t forget to specify LEVEL for your logger: (I removed the f_handler handler in the below code)
import logging
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
logger.setLevel(logging.INFO) # <----- here
c_handler = logging.StreamHandler()
c_handler.setLevel(logging.INFO)
c_format = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
c_handler.setFormatter(c_format)
logger.addHandler(c_handler)
logger.info('This is a INFO-01')