How to enable and use logging module in Python | Linux Today

How to enable and use logging module in Python

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Jun 6, 2016

Logging is an essential debugging feature for any programming and scripting language, which goes beyond simple print statements. For example, logging allows you to track in which module/function/linenumber logging messages are generated. You can also differentiate logging based on severity, and can direct logging messages to stdout/stderr, a file, a network socket, etc.

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