Logging module gives duplicate log entries

[Amit Khemka]

On 8/21/07, Shiao <multiseed at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am getting duplicate log entries with the logging module.
>
> The following behaves as expected, leading to one log entry for each
> logged event:
>
> logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG, filename='/tmp/foo.log')
>
> But this results in two entries for each logged event:
>
> applog = logging.getLogger()
> applog.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
> hdl = logging.FileHandler('/tmp/foo.log')
> applog.addHandler(hdl)
>

You need to remove the handler from the logging object

# remove the handler once you are done
applog.removeHandler(hdl)


Cheers,
amit.

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