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oblvious-earth on July 2, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Logging in Python like a pro

Don't write code where every module tries to make a root logger or set the logger config then.

Each module should use `logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)` and the logger config can set in one place, conventionally in the `__main__` script.

https://docs.python.org/3/howto/logging.html#advanced-loggin...

funstuff007 on July 2, 2022 [–]

true that. but I've never figured out a good way to do this and have a single test runner module log when invoked directly: python3 test_foo.py and indirectly python3 -m unittest test_foo

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