On 13/08/2018 19:23, MRAB wrote: > Here you're configuring the logger, setting the name of the logfile and > the logging level, but not specifying the format, so it uses the default > format: > >> logging.basicConfig(filename='example.log',level=logging.DEBUG) > > Here you're configuring the logger again, this time specifying the > format and the logging level, but not a path of a logging file, so it'll > write to the console: > >> logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)s;%(levelname)s:%(message)s', >> level=logging.DEBUG) > > The second configuration is overriding the first.
No, the second is not overriding the first one. The second call simply does nothing at all. See https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.html#logging.basicConfig : "This function does nothing if the root logger already has handlers configured for it." -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
