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python log level not setting

In file 1:

def get_logger():
return logging.getLogger(_LOGGER_NAME)


def init_logger():
message_format = logging.Formatter(fmt='%(asctime)s %(name)s >>> %(message)s',
datefmt='%Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S')

console_info_handler = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)
console_info_handler.setLevel(logging.INFO)
console_info_handler.setFormatter(fmt=message_format)

logger = logging.getLogger(_LOGGER_NAME)
logger.addHandler(console_info_handler)
logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)

return logger


In file 2:

if name == '__main__':
logger = get_logger()
logger.info(logger.level)


Does not print anything (imports are in place of course). And if I go:

if __name__ == '__main__':
logger = get_logger()
logger.critical(logger.level)


The output is 0, instead of the expected 20. So it looks like the logger level isn't set at the level that I thought it was. Moreover, the level is lower than I thought it was, yet it still doesn't log on logger.info. What am I doing wrong here? Oh and bonus question (since I stole the above code and don't know any of python's logging intricacies), how does resolution of a log message happen if the logger's level and the handler's level clash?

_LOGGER_NAME

2 Answers
2

File 2 only calls get_logger() and not init_logger(). Thus, setLevel is never called on the logger, so its given the default value of NOTSET.

get_logger()

init_logger()

NOTSET

Take a look at: https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.html#logging.Logger.setLevel

By default, the root logger is created with level WARNING. This is why logger.info(logger.level) does nothing as INFO is below WARNING. logger.critical(logger.level), on the other hand, outputs 0 as this is the numeric value of NOTSET.

WARNING

logger.info(logger.level)

INFO

WARNING

logger.critical(logger.level)

NOTSET

To have it do what you want, just call init_logger() in your second file:

init_logger()

if __name__ == '__main__':
logger = init_logger()
logger.info(logger.level)


To answer your bonus question: the handler gets whatever messages get through the logger.

If the level of the logger is DEBUG, and the level of the handler is INFO, the handler will receive all messages from the DEBUG Level and up, but will only output messages on the INFO level and up.

DEBUG

INFO

DEBUG

INFO

You didn't call init_logger() (before calling logger.info()) so the level of your non-default _LOGGER_NAME was not set.

init_logger()

logger.info()

_LOGGER_NAME

Also note the typo: if name == '__main__': -> if __name__ == '__main__':

if name == '__main__':

if __name__ == '__main__':

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