Question

Suppose I catch an exception, and I want to log it. How do I do that? Where do I specify where to log that to?

Answer 1

virhilo tmp $ cat l.py 
import logging

logging.basicConfig(filename='exceptions.log', level=logging.DEBUG)

try:
    1/0
except ZeroDivisionError as e:
    logging.debug(e)
virhilo tmp $ python2 l.py 
virhilo tmp $ cat exceptions.log 
DEBUG:root:integer division or modulo by zero
virhilo tmp $ 

instead od e you can use traceback.print_exc() to get more detailed report