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Python Write Better Python Buggy Logs Logging

logging.info

import logging
logging.warn("Oh! No!")
logging.basicConfig(filename = "config.log", level = logging.DEBUG)
name = input("Type in your name:" )
logging.info("The user's name is ".format(name))

Im trying to log the typed in name but the file "config.log" is not being created, i bet if that line of my code is executing as intended. What should I do. Want to run this simple code to grasp the logging concept

2 Answers

It looks like you need to configure your log file for use BEFORE you try to log any messages ( I.E. logging.warn(str) ). I just moved that line from the top to just after the logging.basicConfig() and it created it just fine.

thanks karis hutcheson I also found out that it might also have been the problem that I was running it using the PyScripter instead of using the native Python IDE.