python - How can INFO and DEBUG logging message be sent to stdout and higher level message to stderr

Question

Is there an easy way with python's logging module to send messages with a DEBUG or INFO level and the one with a higher level to different streams?

Is it a good idea anyway?

Answer 1

import logging
import sys

class LessThanFilter(logging.Filter):
    def __init__(self, exclusive_maximum, name=""):
        super(LessThanFilter, self).__init__(name)
        self.max_level = exclusive_maximum

    def filter(self, record):
        #non-zero return means we log this message
        return 1 if record.levelno < self.max_level else 0

#Get the root logger
logger = logging.getLogger()
#Have to set the root logger level, it defaults to logging.WARNING
logger.setLevel(logging.NOTSET)

logging_handler_out = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)
logging_handler_out.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
logging_handler_out.addFilter(LessThanFilter(logging.WARNING))
logger.addHandler(logging_handler_out)

logging_handler_err = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stderr)
logging_handler_err.setLevel(logging.WARNING)
logger.addHandler(logging_handler_err)

#demonstrate the logging levels
logger.debug('DEBUG')
logger.info('INFO')
logger.warning('WARNING')
logger.error('ERROR')
logger.critical('CRITICAL')

Implementation aside, I do think it is a good idea to use the logging facilities in python to output to the terminal, in particular because you can add another handler to additionally log to a file. If you set stdout to be INFO instead of DEBUG, you can even include additional DEBUG information that the user wouldn't standardly see in the log file.