Logging In Pylons
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:Posted: 2007-08-14 11:37
:Tags: Pylons, Python, AuthKit

Pylons 0.9.6rc1 introduces a new logging mechanism which isn't too well documented at the moment. This is the old method I used before 0.9.6rc1 came out.

In ``config/middleware.py`` Add this code at the end::

    import logging, sys
    def setup_logging(key, level=logging.DEBUG, 
        formatter="%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(module)s %(messages)s"
    ):
        log = logging.getLogger(key)
        console = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stderr)
        log.setLevel(level)
        log.addHandler(console)

Then for each log you want recorded you just add this at the bottom of the file::

    setup_logging('authkit.authenticate', logging.DEBUG)

This is particularly useful for tracking down problems with AuthKit. You might want to add all these for example::

    setup_logging('authkit.authenticate', logging.DEBUG)
    setup_logging('authkit.authenticate.form', logging.DEBUG)
    setup_logging('authkit.authenticate.cookie', logging.DEBUG)