python logging file is not working when using logging.basicConfig

logging, python, python-logging

Solution

I found out what the problem was. It was in the ordering of the imports and the logging definition.

The effect of the poor ordering was that the libraries that I imported before defining the logging using `logging.basicConfig()` defined the logging. This therefore took precedence to the logging that I was trying to define later using `logging.basicConfig()`

Below is how I needed to order it:

import logging
## for file logging
logging.basicConfig(filename='server-soap.1.log',
        level=logging.INFO,
        format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(threadName)-10s %(message)s',)

from pysimplesoap.server import SoapDispatcher, SOAPHandler
from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer
import time,random,datetime,pytz,sys,threading
from datetime import timedelta
#DB
import psycopg2, psycopg2.extras
from psycopg2.pool import ThreadedConnectionPool

#ESB Call
from suds import WebFault
from suds.client import Client

But the faulty ordering that I initially had was:

from pysimplesoap.server import SoapDispatcher, SOAPHandler
from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer
import logging
import time,random,datetime,pytz,sys,threading
from datetime import timedelta
#DB
import psycopg2, psycopg2.extras
from psycopg2.pool import ThreadedConnectionPool

#ESB Call
from suds import WebFault
from suds.client import Client

## for file logging

logging.basicConfig(filename='server-soap.1.log',
        level=logging.INFO,
        format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(threadName)-10s %(message)s',)

Problem

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