According to John J. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Greenland) writes: > > import logging, logging.handlers > > logging.basicConfig(level=logging.WARNING) > > > > newlog = logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler( > > filename='/home/steveg/logtest.log', > > when="midnight") > > newlog.setLevel(logging.INFO) > > > > logging.getLogger().addHandler(newlog) > > > > logging.info("Message from logtest") > > logging.debug("Debug message from logtest") > > > > doesn't print on the console (as expected), but also doesn't add the > > first message to the file. Changing the basicConfig() call to set the > > level to 'level.DEBUG' shows both messages on the console, and only the > > first in the file, which is what I did expect. > > Not sure why you'd expect to see console output regardless of the > logger / handler issue -- INFO and DEBUG are lower in priority than > WARNING, and you've set the (logger) level to WARNING with the > logging.basicConfig() call (indicating you're only interested in > things at least that serious, not mere INFOrmational messages).
Yes, that's why I added "(as expected)" :-) Oh, duh, I see, it can be parsed to mean the opposite of what I intended. What I meant was "As expected, there was no console output." Anyway, thanks for your confirmations. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list