with that case. Using the :func:`basicConfig` function, we can set up the
default handler so that debug messages are written to a file (in the example,
we assume that you have the appropriate permissions to create a file called
-*example.log* in the current directory::
+*example.log* in the current directory)::
import logging
LOG_FILENAME = 'example.log'
import logging
import logging.handlers
- LOG_FILENAME = '/tmp/logging_rotatingfile_example.out'
+ LOG_FILENAME = 'logging_rotatingfile_example.out'
# Set up a specific logger with our desired output level
my_logger = logging.getLogger('MyLogger')
The result should be 6 separate files, each with part of the log history for the
application::
- /tmp/logging_rotatingfile_example.out
- /tmp/logging_rotatingfile_example.out.1
- /tmp/logging_rotatingfile_example.out.2
- /tmp/logging_rotatingfile_example.out.3
- /tmp/logging_rotatingfile_example.out.4
- /tmp/logging_rotatingfile_example.out.5
+ logging_rotatingfile_example.out
+ logging_rotatingfile_example.out.1
+ logging_rotatingfile_example.out.2
+ logging_rotatingfile_example.out.3
+ logging_rotatingfile_example.out.4
+ logging_rotatingfile_example.out.5
-The most current file is always :file:`/tmp/logging_rotatingfile_example.out`,
+The most current file is always :file:`logging_rotatingfile_example.out`,
and each time it reaches the size limit it is renamed with the suffix
``.1``. Each of the existing backup files is renamed to increment the suffix
(``.1`` becomes ``.2``, etc.) and the ``.6`` file is erased.
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG,
format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(message)s',
- filename='/tmp/myapp.log',
+ filename='myapp.log',
filemode='w')
logging.debug('A debug message')
logging.info('Some information')
logging.warning('A shot across the bows')
The :meth:`basicConfig` method is used to change the configuration defaults,
-which results in output (written to ``/tmp/myapp.log``) which should look
+which results in output (written to ``myapp.log``) which should look
something like the following::
2004-07-02 13:00:08,743 DEBUG A debug message