How can INFO and DEBUG logging message be sent to stdout and higher level message to stderr

Question

Is there an easy way with python\'s logging module to send messages with a DEBUG or INFO level and the one with a higher level to different streams?

Is it a good ide

Answer 1

Just for your convenience adding everything together with the formatter in one package:

# shared formatter, but you can use separate ones:
FORMAT = '%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(threadName)s - %(message)s'
formatter = logging.Formatter(FORMAT)

# single app logger:
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
log.setLevel(logging.INFO)

# 2 handlers for the same logger:
h1 = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)
h1.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
# filter out everything that is above INFO level (WARN, ERROR, ...)
h1.addFilter(lambda record: record.levelno <= logging.INFO)
h1.setFormatter(formatter)
log.addHandler(h1)

h2 = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stderr)
# take only warnings and error logs
h2.setLevel(logging.WARNING)
h2.setFormatter(formatter)
log.addHandler(h2)

# profit:
log.info(...)
log.debug(...)

My use case was to redirect stdout to a datafile while seeing errors on the screen during processing.