Problem with TimedRotatingFileHandler

[Dominique.Holzwarth at ch.delarue.com]

Hi everyone

I'm trying to use python's logging mechanism to write exception data into a log file with the TimedRotatingFileHandler but the rotating of the file is not working...
Here's a bit of sample code of what I'm doing (just the interessting part of it ;-)):

import logging
import logging.handlers as handlers
class MyError(Exception):

    fileName = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'Error.log')

    def __init__(self):
        fileHandler = handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler(MyError.fileName, when='m', interval=1, backupCount=1)
        formatter = logging.Formatter('\n%(name)-12s: <%(asctime)s> %(levelname)-8s %(message)s')
        fileHandler.setFormatter(formatter)
        logging.getLogger('').addHandler(fileHandler)
        ## Reference to the logger object
        self.logger = logging.getLogger('FileLogger')
        self.logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)

class MyInheritedError(MyError):
    def __init__(self):
        MyError.__init__(self)
        self.logger.error("some stupid text :-)")

The error classes do write into the log file, however there's no rotating. No new file is created (and old ones renamed) nor are there any old log entries deleted/replaced...
Does anyone have any idea what I could be missing? Might it be a problem due to the fact that these classes inherit from "Exception"?

Would be really cool if some1 could help me :)


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