Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

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When using a heavily customized solution for logging, it's not possible to rely on logging.basicConfig anymore, so we will have to manually set up the logging environment:

import logging import logging.config # OSX logs through /var/run/syslog this should be /dev/log # on Linux system or a tuple ('ADDRESS', PORT) to log to a remote server SYSLOG_ADDRESS = '/var/run/syslog' logging.config.dictConfig({ 'version': 1, 'formatters': { 'default': { 'format': '%(asctime)s %(name)s: %(levelname)s %(message)s' }, }, 'handlers': { 'syslog': { 'class': 'logging.handlers.SysLogHandler', 'formatter': 'default', 'address': SYSLOG_ADDRESS } }, 'root': { 'handlers': ['syslog'], 'level': 'INFO' } }) log = logging.getLogger() log.info('Hello ...