Python Tutorial: Logging Basics - Logging to Files, Setting Levels, and Formatting

In this Python Tutorial, we will be going over the basics of logging. We will learn how to switch out our print statements for logs, change the logging level, add logs to files, and also how to change the format of those logs. Let's get started.

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[Sinthora]

For ppl on Python 3.9 or later:

The log file only works (at least for me) if you pass an additional argument to logging.basicConfig().
It has to be logging.basicConfig(filename='example.log', encoding='utf-8', level=logging.DEBUG).