Proper way to delete/kill a logger?

[Chris Withers]

On 28/11/2011 04:16, cassiope wrote:
> I've been trying to migrate some code to using the standard python
> logging classes/objects.  And they seem quite capable of doing what I
> need them to do.  Unfortunately there's a problem in my unit tests.
> It's fairly common to have to create quite a few entities in the
> course of a series of tests.  What appears to be happening is that the
> loggers don't get entirely eliminated, so that new invocations end up
> spewing output messages from each of the loggers that were started
> with this invocation of the python interpreter.

Two suggestions:

- unless you are specifically testing the logging set up of your 
application, your code under test shouldn't be setting up logging.

- if you want to check that your code under test is emitting log 
messages correctly, use a LogCapture from testfixtures:

http://packages.python.org/testfixtures.

cheers,

Chris

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