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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 02:04:58 +0200
From: Johannes Findeisen <mailman@hanez.org>
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Subject: Logging to file and not to console
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Hi all,

I am going crazy with logging. I have an application which sets up
logging after parsing the args in the main() funktion. It needs to be
setup after parsing the args because I can set the loglevel via
commandline flags.

I have tried many variants on how to do that but every time with an
weird result.

What I want is logging in from all libs and really understand that doing
this should be enough there:

from logging import getLogger
logger = getLogger(__name__)

But, I need to setup the logger in the main() function to log only to a
file and not to console because my application has an own shell
interface which should not be spammed with log messages - never a
message should show up there.

I think it should be only some few lines of code but I can't figure
that out. The logger should be configured to have a max file size and
rotate logfiles.

Can someone help me with this?

Thanks in advance,
Johannes