How to right align level field in Python logging.Formatter

Question

I\'m currently trying to right align the logging level field in my Python logger so that output such as:

[2011-10-14 13:47:51] [DEBUG] --- starting... (smtphandl         


        

Answer 1

Try with this format line :

logging.Formatter("[%(asctime)s] [%(levelname)8s] --- %(message)s (%(filename)s:%(lineno)s)", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

python logger formatter use the standard python string formatting rules