Python logging to stdout and log file

Question

I am fairly new in python and starting to get into the logging module. I would like to have the message logged into a log file and outputting to the console. The code below prints out the message to console but how can I get all the message to be log in a file?

Logger object does not have a function call (basicConfig(filename=)) for logging to a file. How can I add this functionality?

Thanks for the help in advance.

import logging

# create logger
logger = logging.getLogger(_name_)
logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

# create console handler and set level to debug
ch = logging.StreamHandler()
ch.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

# create formatter
formatter = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')

# add formatter to ch
ch.setFormatter(formatter)

# add ch to logger
logger.addHandler(ch)

# 'application' code
logger.debug('debug message')
logger.info('info message')
logger.warn('warn message')
logger.error('error message')
logger.critical('critical message')

found the answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13733552/logger-configuration-to-log-to-file-and-print-to-stdout — JinSnow, Oct 26 '18 at 15:09

score 21 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 29 '16 at 05:56

21

You just need to add another handler, like a logging.FileHandler

fh = logging.FileHandler(r'/path/to/log.txt')
logger.addHandler(fh)

answered Nov 29 '16 at 05:56

Brendan Abel

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score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 29 '16 at 06:06

Expanding on @Brendan's answer.

Your logger currently outputs to the console using a StreamHandler.

By adding a FileHandler, you can log to a file.

Each handler instance can be customized to have its own format and logging level.

If you want to log using the same format, you will have to set the format on the new FileHandler as well.

fh = logging.FileHandler(r'/path/to/log.txt')
fh.setFormatter(formatter)
logger.addHandler(fh)

Read more: Python logging cookbook

Thanks for the detail explanation! – Zen Dec 01 '16 at 02:05 — Zen, Dec 01 '16 at 02:05

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 28 '22 at 15:34

If you have the same configuration for stream and filehandler logger you can simplify it by passing list of handlers to handlers, like this:

import logging
import sys


logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

logging.basicConfig(
    handlers=[
        logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout),
        logging.FileHandler("your_log_file_name.log", mode="w"),
    ],
    level=logging.DEBUG,
    format="%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s",
    datefmt="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S",
)

Lexxer · Answer 4 · 2018-10-27T01:08:29.110

After having used Waterboy's code for simultaneous logging to console and to file (see this thread) over and over in multiple Python packages, I finally cast it into a tiny standalone Python package, which you can find here:

https://github.com/acschaefer/duallog

The code is well documented and easy to use. Simply download the .py file and include it in your project, or install the whole package via python setup.py install.

Using this package, your code would look like this:

# Set up logging to console and file.
import duallog
duallog.setup(logdir='my_logs')

# Generate log messages.
import logging    
logging.debug('debug message')
logging.info('info message')
logging.warn('warn message')
logging.error('error message')
logging.critical('critical message')

Python logging to stdout and log file

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