logging producing redundant entries

[alex23]

Jed Parsons wrote:
> My problem is that, for every event logged, the logger is producing
> multiple identical entries with the timestamp the same down to the
> millisecond.

>      import logging
>      # basicConfig for python 2.3
>      logging.basicConfig()
[...]
>      _logger.addHandler(_handler)

I think the problem might be that basicConfig does a lot more than you
seem to be aware:

> basicConfig( ) :
> Does basic configuration for the logging system by creating a StreamHandler with
> a default Formatter and adding it to the root logger. The functions debug(), info(),
> warning(), error() and critical() will call basicConfig() automatically if no handlers
> are defined for the root logger.

So basicConfig is creating a default handler and you're then adding
another, so two entries for every event.

Hope this helps.

- alex23