Google App Engine/Python - Change logging formatting

Question

How can one change the formatting of output from the logging module in Google App Engine?

I\'ve tried, e.g.:

  log_format = \"* %(asctim         


        

Answer 1

Here is one way you can change the logging format without duplicating output:

# directly access the default handler and set its format directly
logging.getLogger().handlers[0].setFormatter(fr)

This is a bit of a hack because you have to directly access the handlers list stored in the root logger. The problem is GAE automatically uses logging before your code is ever run - this creates a default handler. Unfortunately, I don't see how you can get a reference to this handler without directly accessing the handlers list as above.