Question

I have used the following code to get warnings to be logged:

import logging
logging.captureWarnings(True)
formatter = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s\t%(levelname)s\t%(message)s')
console_handler = logging.StreamHandler()
console_handler.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
console_handler.setFormatter(formatter)

This works, however, my logging formatter is not applied, and the warnings come out looking like this:

WARNING:py.warnings:/home/joakim/.virtualenvs/masterload/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.3c1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/MySQLdb/cursors.py:100: Warning: 
InnoDB: ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC requires innodb_file_per_table.

instead of the expected format:

2012-11-12 18:19:44,421 INFO    START updating products

How can I apply my normal formatting to captured warning messages?

Answer 1

You created a handler, but never configured the logging module to use it:

console_handler = logging.StreamHandler()
console_handler.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
console_handler.setFormatter(formatter)

You need to add this handler to a logger; the root logger for example:

logging.getLogger().addHandler(console_handler)

Alternatively, you can add the handler to the warnings logger only; the captureWarnings() documentation states that it uses py.warnings for captured warnings:

logging.getLogger('py.warnings').addHandler(console_handler)

Instead of creating a handler and formatter explicitly, you can also just call basicConfig() to configure the root logger:

logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)s\t%(levelname)s\t%(message)s', level=logging.DEBUG)

The above basic configuration is the moral equivalent of the handler configuration you set up.